Films set in specific periods of history necessarily broach at least two major subjects: the way that things have changed, and the way that they haven’t.
Greta Gerwig
FARCE TO THE FUTURE: THREE GENERATIONS OF COMEDY FILMMAKERS RELEASE LATEST
A judge and a detective get involved as the seventh and eighth wheels, because this is that type of movie—the type of comedy they might’ve made in the ’30s, when detectives and judges were always walking into farcical scenes at the wrong time.