":::::I apologize; I'm a journalist, and I should have expressed my point more clearly. What I was suggesting is that while person A or person B might not understand the scene and might think it extraneous, person C or person D might understand it and believe it's intrinsic to the plot of the movie. I was simply giving an example of someone who understood it. Not all storytelling ""spoon-feeds"" the audience; sometimes a filmmaker makes his or her point obliquely, or in a way that requires the audience to ""connect the dots."" If one person or other doesn't get the point of the opening scene, that's cool — but that doesn't automatically mean that other people don't get it and that the scene is useless or extraneous.    

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