peter looks at george segal's mouth for a little while and then he looks at the drink in george segal'snd he spent a lot of time looking at this really cool brooch that elizabeth taylor is wearing. he can't understand the social context. the words in that scene mean nothing. it's about the meaning of the three people interacting and he misses all that. because he can't mind read. that shred of literal evidence is being said is wholly insufficient for making sense of what's happening in the movie. disappointed that scene work climaxes with richard burton, takes out a gun and points elizabeth taylor and pulls the trigger. if you sit in the movie theater watching that there's a kind of shocked stunned silence because you are thinking, oh my god, then the umbrella comes out you are like Ãbone peter saw that, burst out laughing. because it slapstick to someone who doesn't understand the social context of what has gone on in that movie. the inability to read minds creates an enormous problem when it comes to making sense of any fast flowing complex social situation. this is a very long way of