This is just what happens when you leave your comfort zone 💀💀
The apathy in this film is poignant. Scenes of unnecessary violence and Alfred and Patsy walking down the street, buildings are on fire and yet they don’t bat an eye. Alfred covered in blood on the subway and people look but no one cares. People being killed every five minutes, 345 unsolved murders, and this is all just commonplace. Every situation is absurd. We’re shown these kafkaesque situations and thrown into this absurdist reality where sometimes all you can do is dissociate and daydream as you’re being beat up because it was going to happen anyways and you need to just get on with life. Critiques on rituals and marriage, with an amazing monologue by Donald Sutherland, and the need to change your spouse because they were unchanging to begin with. And finally submitting to the absurdity of reality because that’s your only hope at experiencing joy, because you just have to ignore it, or embrace it. I enjoy the dark satire of this film and how it’s presented, it reminds me a lot of the film After Hours. But idk I enjoyed this film and I liked Alfred.
This is just what happens when you leave your comfort zone 💀💀
The apathy in this film is poignant. Scenes of unnecessary violence and Alfred and Patsy walking down the street, buildings are on fire and yet they don’t bat an eye. Alfred covered in blood on the subway and people look but no one cares. People being killed every five minutes, 345 unsolved murders, and this is all just commonplace. Every situation is absurd. We’re shown these kafkaesque situations and thrown into this absurdist reality where sometimes all you can do is dissociate and daydream as you’re being beat up because it was going to happen anyways and you need to just get on with life. Critiques on rituals and marriage, with an amazing monologue by Donald Sutherland, and the need to change your spouse because they were unchanging to begin with. And finally submitting to the absurdity of reality because that’s your only hope at experiencing joy, because you just have to ignore it, or embrace it. I enjoy the dark satire of this film and how it’s presented, it reminds me a lot of the film After Hours. But idk I enjoyed this film and I liked Alfred.