Symbolism in movies/books. If you get me started I can usually run with it. If you tell me that bird seed nourishes the birds the same way money nourishes the family I can logically interpret that the bear that shows up in the backyard rummaging through the bird feeders represents the bad guys that are after your dirty money (Season 1, Sopranos). I can follow that symbolism for as long as the writers keep it somewhat in tact. My problem is that I think logically not symbolically. If it wasn’t pointed out to me to begin with, the bear in the backyard would have just been another event that I would have taken at face value and never given another thought to.