The part of the wife's death was not clear to me.
Did she die at a car accident after leaving the shop which she returned her 2 outfits to? Did she perform a U-Turn in order to return to the clothing store or what?
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain.
Best I can tell, is she had a sudden impulsive twinge of guilt over buying too many clothes so she made a u-turn to go back to the clothing store, and that's when she got creamed by another car. In the movie it was mplied, but not actually shown.
Yeah, I didn't catch on at the first viewing, I had to go back and watch that segment again, but that's apparently where she died, when she made that impulsive U-turn.
Yes, it is very clearly the way she dies. You can hear the sound of the tires, also (if I remember correctly) the sound of the crash. These kind of sounds are very typical for describing car accidents.
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They blew up Congress!!! HAHAHA!
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Tony's wife returned a dress and coat to a store, and while driving back, had an irresistable urge to retrieve them. She presumably made some kind of frenzied u-turn to return to the store as soon as possible. She never made it. She died because she was powerless to resist the lure of clothes.
I thought this was an outstanding film, loaded with powerful symbolic and allegorical ideas about the alienation in our affluent societies, where we have ceased to be humans but instead consumers/objects. The film's length (only about 75 minutes), helped immeasurably. It makes some strong statements about our species. The obsession with new clothes that must be replenished regularly seems to represent our desperate need to find meaning by any means possible, to find 'new skin' as it were. That might be fanciful, but it's one interpretation.
I think it's fair to say that you would never see a film like this from Hollywood's brain-dead studio system. It is not a 'saleable' film, and therefore would have no appeal for producers.