As a cab driver, he engages in more small talk and ends up discovering a lot about his sinister passenger and also about the city which the character, Vincent, considers, “too sprawled out, and disconnected”. Vincent’s affronting remarks on the city reflect an outsider’s perspective on the city and its ethics. His experiences with Los Angeles’ have prompted him to resent the lack of real human connection and compassion, and he later enforces this argument by reciting to Max a story about a man who died on a train and remained for hours before anyone notices. This extreme case of isolation from one another depicts a truly unforgiving city where helplessness is given no
As a cab driver, he engages in more small talk and ends up discovering a lot about his sinister passenger and also about the city which the character, Vincent, considers, “too sprawled out, and disconnected”. Vincent’s affronting remarks on the city reflect an outsider’s perspective on the city and its ethics. His experiences with Los Angeles’ have prompted him to resent the lack of real human connection and compassion, and he later enforces this argument by reciting to Max a story about a man who died on a train and remained for hours before anyone notices. This extreme case of isolation from one another depicts a truly unforgiving city where helplessness is given no