Ebenezer Scrooge meets Knut Hamsun's irrational nihilists seeking salvation meets a collection of prolonged, haunting, and melancholic affection-images. Sjostrom's narrative really gets under the skin.

"Lord, please let my soul come to maturity before it is reaped."

john irving expresses his castration anxiety in this film where lord farquad plays a transgender football player

Grief. I feel better now.

Hertzfeldt hit a developmental peak at 13 and decided he'd add an existential bent to his "eccentric" observational humor while he was doodling stick figures at a college lecture on Sartre.