From your original comment, I learned some new things about a movie I enjoyed but haven't thought about in a while. I felt it connected fine to the topic, and made for a really interesting contribution to the discussion.

I've always been intrigued by how the representation of those characters instantly connected so well with my engineer-identifying brain, and little details like that must have been a big part of it. It's a neat little nuance on the idea that what bits of cargo cult a person exhibits _now_ can sometimes give insight to their current place in life, and perhaps even to their deeper character and heart.