As we step into the final days of December, the cities transform into a grand illusion. Giant pines adorn the squares, red and green wrappings spill out of shop windows, and that endless flood of lights wrap the streets. From the outside, it all seems to promise a collective joy, an unending celebration. But those tableaux of "mandatory happiness" scrolling through our social media feeds whisper a single demand: On New Year's Eve, you must be somewhere, with someone, having fun. Otherwise, you are incomplete. Yet, beneath this loud festivity, right under those blinding lights, lies a deep silence cast in shadow.
Urban melancholy
Perhaps this feeling of fading away amid the modern city's noise finds its most elegant and poignant reflection in Billy Wilderβs 1960 cult classic, "The Apartment." The filmβs protagonist, C.C. Baxter, drifts through life among the skyscrapers of New York, working inside a colossal insurance company that employs tho
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