IMO, "straight forward" means simple, easy to figure out and understand, no ambiguity, etc.

Yeah, exactly. It's very straight forward. For me.

Do you mean you do not agree with it, or it's the word choice you don't like?

It's far from straight forward, as is obvious by all the differing view points, and perceptions of what exactly is going on and why.

What is straight forward about it?

Same way I say "what's not straightforward about it".

I haven't read the reviews on it... up until now.

Edgar wants to prove David wrong and plays him - it's this simple for me. Plays him well.

This one is my favorite, by the way.

OK, but we already know from the author's mouth that Edgar isn't even a real person.  He's a figment of David's imagination.  Most of this script takes place in David's imagination.

So what you thought was straight forward, isn't even what the story is about.

Understand?

I know that Edgar isn't a real person. Not "from the authors mouth" but from the story. And if it's only David's imagination - all the better. The imagination played him or "something, called Edgar" played him - I don't even wish to know. It's something that doesn't agree with "the bad gene" thing. Maybe a trace of doubt that never left David's mind played trick on him...I don't even question what it is.

By STRAIGHTFORWARD here - I mean it does not deviate from the story.

Straightforward is not always "not ambiguous" - I know I agreed with you, but accidentally really. Straightforward here (for me) is "single thought driven".

Understand?

No, I don't understand, but at this point, I don't think it matters much.

Is Shutter island a "straight forward" flick as well?

Know what - I started looking for Shutter Island short here on Feb OWC and then realized...

I don't know anything about Shutter Island but sense the sarcasm. What can I say - congrats, you've succeded at being sarcastic.

Dude, I'm just trying to make a simple point...and that point is that this script is so far from being straight forward, that I'm amazed this back and forth is still going on.

I don't mean to offend you or put you down, or even say that what you're saying isn't correct.  It is what it is, and straight forward, it isn't.

Dudette!

And, Tim, I apologize for highjacking your thread. I'll stop posting here.

My bad...I apologize.  Someone else informed me awhile ago.  I didn't know and I didn't mean anything bad.

Quoted from khamanna Dudette!

Jeff's inability to distinguish Dude's from Dudette's got him into a real pickle during his last visit to Thailand.

Quoted from mcornetto Jeff's inability to distinguish Dude's from Dudette's got him into a real pickle during his last visit to Thailand.

There's some embarrassing video of that online somewhere too.

HaHa...very, very funny guys...and gals.

I sure hope that video doesn't surface.  I thought all 6 of them were girls...I really did.  Sure, I was high as a kite on that Tai Stick we smoked, but they all really looked like chicks!  Well, until something unwanted "popped up".  I freaked and ran out of that shack butt-ass naked.  Luckily for me, there was another brothel a few feet away, that I took shelter in.

I'm not really sure how I ended up married to those twin 22 year olds.  We annulled it 2 weeks later, but, damn, they were fun while I (I mean, it) lasted.  Those bastards revoked my visa and I haven;'t been back since.