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But did you notice the long stretches of tin-ear dialogue for Mary Kay Place; the amateurish quality of the setups (often you can see a microphone dipping and swaying at the top of the screen); and, last but not least, the 10th-grade misogyny?
He's trying to inflate it into tragedy, where Highsmith's setups are too cold and shallow to be tragic.