The most impressive thing is the film's repeated metaphors
1. When John's father died, the crowd was in the trapezoidal staircase. The child was in the front. Then there was the hospital ward where John's first child was born. The trapezoidal space seemed to be the cycle of life.
2. The same thing about life and death is also related to the crowd. When John's father died, the crowd gathered at the stairs of the house and kept a distance from the deceased. John's child died in a car accident. The same is true of the crowd and the deceased.
3. The fate of John and Mary at the window of the house changed from falling in love to arguing to heartless
4. John's office is also from integration to resignation, but hundreds of people in the office will not change anything because of his departure. The bustling and depressing New York in the cruel lens of realism starts from this movie. The crowd and traffic in the streets are repeated about the crowding of high-rise buildings. A similar desire for opportunity
5. The first shot of John entering the workplace is from the crowd aiming to his personal ending. Part of the shot moved from John's close-up back to the crowd, which is a problem.
I tend to say that what the director wants to express is that the protagonist is nothing special in the crowd. Someone will always take his place, but don't give up your life because of mediocrity. Everyone's life is different.
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