It's a plot device... a way to cast a reflective
plate glass window against the larger theme of the dissolution of, well, take your choice.
Not exact matches
In one of the film's best scenes, he takes Stahl to a top floor in an empty skyscraper, where the two of them get high and throw themselves repeatedly
against the shatterproof
plate -
glass windows.
A fatally wounded Asian man throws himself
against the
plate -
glass window and Dale watches in stoned horror as Ted and the cop pump him full of bullets.
The contrast between the purgatorial environs of the hotels — hermetically sealed behind
plate -
glass windows, suffuse with the purring of the air - conditioning systems — and the graceful, sexually charged movements of their inhabitants is poignant, suggesting an effort to buck
against the constraints of the grindingly ordinary.