I apologize I m a journalist and I should have expressed my point more clearly What I was suggesting is that while person A or person B might not understand the scene and might think it extraneous person C or person D might understand it and believe it s intrinsic to the plot of the movie I was simply giving an example of someone who understood it Not all storytelling spoon feeds the audience sometimes a filmmaker makes his or her point obliquely or in a way that requires the audience to connect the dots If one person or other doesn t get the point of the opening scene that s cool but that doesn t automatically mean that other people don t get it and that the scene is useless or extraneous