Cunning use of the frame and efficient production design.

The negative space, at first used in a familiar way: to isolate the character and dwarf him in emptiness, then becomes a setting for a new drama of tedium featuring a new player: the cockroach.

Perfectly paralleling the paranoia of the central narrative this new drama within a drama folds the meaning of the film onto itself

The Hegelian overtones are deafening, but I wont bore you with the obvious.

Kind of a big bug on the wall there.

Someone has to set this up with the elevator music people.

I sing this to telemarketers who annoy me at work.

I like this man. I think I see a lot of myself in him. In fact, now I know what I'm going to be doing when I'm 60.

I love the emphasis he makes on the "p" sound at the end of dump