Scene when Schmidt visits the Rusks in their trailor
More chestnuts to the truthfulness of the movie.
Schmidt brings a six-pack of beer? Schmidt hardly struck me as the kind of man whose drink of choice is domestic beer from a can. Perhaps he thinks that he is stepping down in class and that the Rusks like canned beer.
When Mrs. Rusk welcomes Schmidt into her trailor ......it is such an incredibly genuine slice of life portraying real people who do not look like Hollywood actors but people in their environment and behaving as opposed to turning affected performances. Yet, when Mr. Rusk, leaves to get more beer and Mrs. Rusk proceeds to psychologically strip Schmidt, he makes a play for her. I thought this was the most unbelievable moment in a film that until then, had been so truthful, naturally funny, and accurate in its portrayal of real characters.
How could Schmidt do such a thing? What was he thinking? He's making a sexual play to a wife of a virtual stranger while the husband is due back any time?
I thought this moment stuck out like a hitchhiker's sore thumb in an otherwise keenly truthful film