Curb Your Enthusiasm

I watched an episode of one of my favorite TV shows, Curb Your Enthusiasm recently.  The show focuses on the daily life of script writer Larry David as he goes through his everyday routine.  In this episode Larry gets into a fight with his managers wife about their new house.  Larry is characterized as a down to earth kind of guy who say whatever's on his mind and does whatever he thinks should be done in a simple social situation.  So when his mangers wife asks him if he would like a tour of the new house he refuses as he sees no point to it.  She then proceeds to kick him out.  During the scene the camera work is evidently purposeful.  Congruent with the style of the show, tight medium shots of the characters allow for little view of the surroundings.  Thus when Larry enters it is clear he hasn't really got a clear view of the whole house.  So when he dismisses the tour with a simple "eh" it seemed rude.  Also used in this episode was a dream sequence.  After accidentally telling his wife  her friend's fiancée may be cheating on her he dreams of the worst possible situation where he is blamed by the fiancée for breaking up the marriage.  Using an editing technique that blurred the outside of the shot yet left the characters clearly visible the director made it clear that the scene was a dream and not reality.  I enjoy this series because it shows what would happen if we , like Larry David, ignored common courtesy or social standards and all said and did what we thought.