Quirky and weird (Microphone boom)

Rating: 8/10 (28 November 2006)

I loved this movie. It was quirky and surprising. I saw this movie over the Thanksgiving weekend at a very small theater. There were TONS of scenes where you could see the microphone booms. Several they were very very clear. There is a scene they show in the trailer where they are sitting in the rain. In the theater I could see the microphone boom in that scene clear as day - the rain was even dripping off of it. I'm left with thinking that the placement of the booms in the scenes was intentional? Possibly to illustrate how the picture was a narration of Harold's life. I can't imagine that the director left those in there by mistake as they were so apparent. I'm really surprised to see that there were no other mentions of it within the comments. There are a couple of mentions of the booms in the "goofs" section however.