what's the deal with the boom mic?

Rating: 5/10 (10 December 2006)

I didn't much care for this movie simply because it isn't the type of movie I care much for. performances were good, concept was interesting, direction was adequate. It is clearly the type of movie which its devotees will spend endless hours discussing "what it really meant." My question is this, "what the heck was the deal with the boom mic?" In the print I saw, the boom mic hangs down consistently into almost every scene for the first half of the movie; moving from actor to actor. It isn't just a glimpse of the dang thing but the whole microphone, including the boom a couple of times. It is there way to much to be poor editing or an accident. But if it isn't poor editing or an accident, it must be intentional. If it is intentional, it must "mean" something.
Had the author been writing a screenplay instead of a novel, it would have made some sense, but since a novel is a narrative form rather than a recorded form, the mic is way out of place and seems to have no context.
I would love to read anyone's thoughts about this. It may mean something to someone, but it was just another distraction in a movie I didn't care much for in the first place.