need a film where the insouciant hopeful utopian dreamer, roguish but charming, is inexorably crushed between the forces of lassitude, incompetence, inertia, entrenched interest, and outright petty malice
maybe it ends with him being slowly lowered into a vat of molten magic plastic like the end of Terminator 2. He gives one last ‘hang loose’ gesture as his hand disappears into the glowing orange goop, his girlfriend walking away with nary a look back arm in arm with the second deputy commissioner junior grade for regional historic-building planning permits
need a film where the insouciant hopeful utopian dreamer, roguish but charming, is inexorably crushed between the forces of lassitude, incompetence, inertia, entrenched interest, and outright petty malice
maybe it ends with him being slowly lowered into a vat of molten magic plastic like the end of Terminator 2. He gives one last ‘hang loose’ gesture as his hand disappears into the glowing orange goop, his girlfriend walking away with nary a look back arm in arm with the second deputy commissioner junior grade for regional historic-building planning permits