A witness points, a friend hunts for keys: the shrug in The Girl Who Knew Too Much
In Senses of Cinema's telling of The Girl Who Knew Too Much, Nora points with her eyes at the spot in Rome where she witnessed a brutal murder on her first night in town, and tells her new friend Laura so. Laura responds nonchalantly, looking through her purse for her keys: they were at home, and they didn't hear a thing.
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The nonchalance does double duty — obliviousness or a lie — and the exchange gives no tiebreaker.
Pushback
Or it's ordinary realism about how little a personal account counts for. Laura doesn't have to be sinister to be the most unsettling thing in the room.