I attended a screening of The Trials of Darryl Hunt at the Broadway Performance Hall last night. It is an extremely tense story about a black man convicted of raping and killing a white woman—the man then spent almost 20 years in prison while trying to prove his innocence. During the film, someone in the audience was jangling something—and while SIFF-goers are more sensitive than most to noise (which I appreciate)—it was really annoying.

When I was walking out of the screening room after the film, a woman was confronting the man who had been making the noises (rattling a dog-tag necklace, it turns out), apparently he had also been talking a lot during the film. He wasn’t taking the criticism very well, acting very hostile toward the woman. I was agreeing with her in my mind when she launched an attack on his b.o. problem. Yikes. Things were escalating in the argument as I exited. The last thing I saw was her chasing after him, outside the theater, screaming “TAKE A BATH, PIG!!”