In the elevator with the cleaning lady

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wlee08 — 11 years ago(November 26, 2014 02:36 PM)

Isn't there a word for it when people rub their education in other peoples faces? It felt like they were both being obnoxious by talking covertly like that around the cleaning lady. Just because you have a lot of money doesn't mean you cant be 'down to earth'.

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franzkabuki — 11 years ago(December 12, 2014 03:38 AM)

They speak sort of elliptically precisely because they don't want the cleaning lady to understand what exactly they're talking about.
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IMDbyebye — 11 years ago(February 28, 2015 11:04 PM)

If you're thinking of "condescending", you're way off point. Why would they want to alter their speech to include the cleaning lady in the conversation?

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jdunnTX — 10 years ago(July 25, 2015 02:54 AM)

You missed the whole point of the scene

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brussels_sprout13 — 10 years ago(September 01, 2015 04:02 PM)

I saw the scene as representing the "invisibility" of the working-class to those who have money.

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goosh69 — 10 years ago(January 09, 2016 11:00 AM)

correct. That's how it is in NYC. People with money speak in front of maids and drivers etc as though they are not there.
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fountaincap — 10 years ago(January 29, 2016 06:20 AM)

correct. That's how it is in NYC. People with money speak in front of maids and drivers etc as though they are not there.
Yup. I'm from NYC and as soon as I saw the cleaning lady, I said, "Lemme guess, they're not even going to say hello to her."

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kaskait — 10 years ago(January 08, 2016 09:07 PM)

The point of the scene was not only a class issue but the fact that what they were doing was so far reaching it could put even the cleaning lady on unemployment.