I love the Kafka portrait in his office, which manages to be suggestive of all sorts of things! It tells us he works in a literary field and that he has pretty sophisticated tastes... but also we ask why he would feel the need to frame it. Is it just there to show clients? Also, when Kafka comes up people immediately think of Gregor turning into a beetle, so we're primed to expect some transformation. Lastly, I love the idea that he doesn't have many close friends or family (he picked up women then dumps them), so a long-dead author is the closest he can get!
but it could not be said that Nic is 'playing it straight' from the beginning either, the accent, the way he approaches rachel the first time in the bar...he is quirky..
Yes, that`s probably the reason, why he acts like a playboy in the night. Looking for one-night-stands in nightclubs. By day a serious agent, by night a playboy. The two sides of Peter Loew.
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it's great scene dressing - suggests a lot, even though the camera never has to give it a close-up or draw your attention to it! I love the way he shakes Rachel's hand... it's so awkard, but suave all at once!
@eva Nic can't help but be cute even when he is not behaving cutely?!
@sprocket the Kafka pic has always had the transformation connotation for me..even a wink at the cockroaches..or maybe just an extension of his pretensiousness?
lol yeah! and that is where the soundtrack begins to get really cool and hammer too!
the bat put an end to his getting it on with his lady..for me this is the first time we get a hint at the beginnning of his decline..and the deliciousness of the hand gestures, sweeping back the hair, wide eyes, shoulders up, expressionistic awesomeness that is to come..