PrepTest 137, Section 2, Question 16
Marife: That was a bad movie because, by(61 more words not shown)
Marife's and Nguyen's comments indicate(4 more words not shown)
- Awhether the movie(4 more words not shown)
- Bwhether the relationship(14 more words not shown)
- Cwhether the movie(7 more words not shown)
- Dthe appropriateness of(10 more words not shown)
- Ewhether the filmmaker(9 more words not shown)
Reading the argument
Does every good murder mystery have to let the audience solve the murder? Maybe a film could still be entertaining without supplying every clue. That's my initial reaction to Marife's criticism.
Nguyen takes a different approach. The response isn't that murder mysteries don't need to meet Marife's standard. It's that this film shouldn't be judged as a murder mystery in the first place. The murder provides a setting for the relationship between the detective and her assistant; it doesn't define the film.
What we’re looking for
So the disagreement concerns the category. Marife treats the movie as a murder mystery and judges it by a requirement for that genre. Nguyen says the murder isn't its defining characteristic. For the disagreement question, distinguish that challenge to the classification from a claim that the movie is good.
Working the answers
- A
Marife calls the movie bad, but Nguyen never calls it good. Nguyen could think it is a bad relationship drama while rejecting Marife's reason for criticizing it. Showing that one criticism uses the wrong standard doesn't establish the opposite overall verdict.
- B
Nguyen considers the relationship central. Marife says nothing about how important it is. Marife might agree that the relationship matters while also treating the movie as a murder mystery. We don't have opposing opinions about its importance.
- CCorrect
Marife applies a requirement of murder mysteries to this film, treating it as a member of that genre. Nguyen says the murder should not define the film; it is the context for the relationship. That challenges classifying the film as a murder mystery, which is the classification underlying Marife's criticism.
- D
Nguyen could fully accept that murder mysteries must meet certain criteria. The response is that those criteria don't apply to this particular movie. Disputing whether something belongs in a category isn't the same as disputing whether the category has standards.
- E
Marife argues that the movie failed to give viewers the information needed to solve the murder. That doesn't establish what Marife thinks the filmmaker intended. Nguyen discusses the intended focus on the relationship, but that alone doesn't give us two opposing views about whether the filmmaker wanted viewers to solve the crime.
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