Her courtroom brilliance brings her a whiff of celebrity.
Johansson's lurking backstage among bands, and even singing with them to rock crowds, gives her a whiff of something more dangerous-seeming, earthy and direct than her long, isolated months on-set, even as musicians see her as a cinema-screen-sized, superhuman beauty, walking among them.
Instead she brings with her the whiff of the home-mixed cocktail and the rustle of the Daily Mail - never happier than when giggling at modern life.
Because Hannah always remains something of a representative figure, she never becomes a completely palpable individual; there remains about her the whiff of the synthetic, a sense that she is more symbol than human being.
"I want the world to know," she shouted, right after her tremendous whiff, as she jogged to the stage.
She laments her loss of income (which she clearly didn't need), and that her marriage took on a "1950s whiff," her world narrowed and she became outdated.
Though what she actually says to me is: "Maybe this wasn't cut out for me" – a slip that seems to reflect her skew-whiff perspective.
Her first real whiff of stardom was the 2003 movie "Thirteen"; her second was the news, a few years later, that she was dating Marilyn Manson.
She describes both the company's woefully inadequate anti-bullying protocols for young subscribers — Facebook's current business model seems built on "habituating kids to giving up their privacy" — and their ill-advised efforts to bully her once they got a whiff of her criticisms.
