In a Shurun, There's a Game of the Scene

In comedy, we would call this the game of the scene. Martin McDonough builds 55 pages of stakes just out of a character who wants something real bad and who's willing to take actions that most of us are not willing to take. And what we're really watching is a character just trying to raise his status back up to friendship. Dominic, right, the the gom, right, of the town, the dumbest guy in the town, ends up knowing a word to say that he doesn't know, right? So he's knocking down his status.