I won't go into a long explanation, so here is the short end of the why this short story was made into a film.
The story illustrates all the people who this twenty year old knows and meets in this short time period in New York. All of them in Tony's eyes are the same, except for one. One casts a shadow upon the missing piece the character of Tony is looking for in regards to how he sees his future.
The amazing thing about this story is Tony doesn't do some dance finale because dance is not what the story is about. It helps carry the substance of Tony's journey, but its not the story.
Tony's at end tolerance and eventual epiphany when he refers to everyone as "idiots". Why is this so important? Because we grow up and learn to believe in respect for others, but by the time we go to school and realize everyone has lied to us in our youth, you simply want someone who is honest. He saw how dysfunctional and disingenuous everyone was and wanted out, but he didn't want to go it alone, after all this is a love story of self discovery and innocence.
This is basically a man's version of a Victorian age snoozefest story line where the women wants to abandon social conventions. But the essence is the discovery that the world does consist of many idiots and all Tony wanted was one person who wasn't a fool.
That's what the film is about. Watch it again.
The story illustrates all the people who this twenty year old knows and meets in this short time period in New York. All of them in Tony's eyes are the same, except for one. One casts a shadow upon the missing piece the character of Tony is looking for in regards to how he sees his future.
The amazing thing about this story is Tony doesn't do some dance finale because dance is not what the story is about. It helps carry the substance of Tony's journey, but its not the story.
Tony's at end tolerance and eventual epiphany when he refers to everyone as "idiots". Why is this so important? Because we grow up and learn to believe in respect for others, but by the time we go to school and realize everyone has lied to us in our youth, you simply want someone who is honest. He saw how dysfunctional and disingenuous everyone was and wanted out, but he didn't want to go it alone, after all this is a love story of self discovery and innocence.
This is basically a man's version of a Victorian age snoozefest story line where the women wants to abandon social conventions. But the essence is the discovery that the world does consist of many idiots and all Tony wanted was one person who wasn't a fool.
That's what the film is about. Watch it again.