The plot of the whole movie can be summarized as follows: After get off work, Paul, who is bored, wants to go out for pleasure, but finds that there are too many stories about the female subject, so he wants to go home and sleep. As a result, the subway price increases and he can’t afford the ticket. A series of absurd stories happened with the clues of going home. It seems that all people and things are preventing Paul from going home.
This movie does not have Martin Scorsese's usual character narration, and there is no golden partner Robert De Niro. The whole process is absurd and weird, and the characters are overwhelming.
After the protagonist Paul left home in the midnight excitement, the following things gradually fell into an uncontrollable state, in which he completely lost his direction.
He wanted an affair, whether it was with Qiqi or Marcy, but when it was about to start, he was always interrupted by something.
He wants to go home, there is always something to stop him.
It lasted until the next morning when Paul finally went home, but it was not that he took the initiative to go back, but was accidentally pulled back as a sculpture.
I think Scorsese used Paul's experience to tell the audience that although the days of working as a worker are boring, it will inevitably be bored after a long time, and that he wants to find some excitement at night and find his "ideal".
This kind of thinking is understandable, everyone has freedom of movement, but at night, the outside life may not be what you think.
Hit the workers and keep it away. It is very possible that a momentary impulse will make you fall into an uncontrollable absurd state.
Compared to being in an uncontrollable state, the unchanging days are boring, but at least safe and reliable, isn't it?
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