He doesn't believe in red herrings or non-sequiturs, but rather in the idea that everything is connected and thus relevant to the artist; no morsel escapes his despotic eye.
Screenwriter Peter Bowker, who adapted the thing, certainly knows how to draw you in, slipping in red herrings as to who the perp is, and drip-feeding the nicer aspects of his characters through the sticky bin juice of greed, right up until the reveal, which is unsatisfying (my money was on a Foxtons marketing campaign).
On the other hand, if this exercise in red herrings does nothing else, it will at least demonstrate to everybody just how much man-made junk is clogging up our oceans instead of, say, actual red herrings.
Now 61 and 58 years old respectively, Joel and Ethan have specialised for three decades in red herrings and hoodwinking escapades — in films about failed kidnaps, botched betrayals and futile quests for purpose in a cruel, meaningless world.
Shyamalan also tosses in red herrings, like Becca's search for something she calls "the elixir," along with even redder flags so obvious you'd think they must be satirical, like having Nana and Pop Pop work as counselors at a psychiatric hospital.
It's an enigma wrapped in a riddle wrapped in a red herring wrapped in yesterday's edition of Norwegian daily Aftenavisen.
Third, several methodological issues discussed in the red herring debate also apply in the steepening debate, and hence bringing in the red herring literature will improve the steepening debate.
Knightley, meanwhile, puts her best teeth forward and does her haughty Head Girl act, stopping only to lock lips with Depp in a red herring subplot which will presumably spark some dreary love triangle misunderstanding in Part Three.
Hitchens also throws in the red herring that Muslims are not being treated differently from other religions in that those other faiths are also sometimes labelled "Fascist.
In a red herring, at the hearing Ocasio-Cortez focused on the fact that there was only $57,000 in the Public Health Emergency Fund.
To identify school as the best place to break down barriers and then announce that those who oppose separation of children on the grounds of religion are throwing in a red herring is illogical.
