"I could also feel myself getting pissed off even more because I could relate to Adam's character."
That's pretty interesting. Maybe I did, too, in the first viewing.
However, nowadays I look at this movie as a Zen koan, so I see it as 'Zen teacher shocking the student to liberate the student from emotional entanglements so the student can enjoy life and become enlightened'.
From this perspective, you see Adam's character as an almost hopeless douche, that ends up making an amazing transformation towards real humanity - and Jack's character as someone real, that constantly, bit by bit, is able to shave away Adam's character's 'fakeness'.
Jack is relaxed, fun and in control, Adam's character is dominated by 'superficial expectations and fear' - almost like a drone or NPC instead of a centered, confident human being that doesn't let situations get to him too much.
Too many people in this world are like Adam's character - every little thing gets to him and makes him scared and angry - the teacher pushes the student so the student can awaken and lose the self-created prison of 'fakeness' and become real and live in the moment without stress or other superficial and artificial structure.
When you let a structure control your life through fear, you can't be a real human being, relaxedly living in the moment, you can't be in control in such a situation.
Think of the movie 'Office Space' - there are plenty of comparisons to be made here. Think of the protagonist's transformation in that movie, and compare it to what kind of life Adam's character is living before Jack comes into his life.
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