This movie is about the Jungle
He has a mental disease, his knob is small, he is not smart, his sight is weak, his body is fat, his head is balding, and his nature timid. He is the Omega male.
Bob is a quite man. Stuck in his Goldfish bowl of an office job. The male workers bully him through menial humiliation and females he can never love tease with legal action at his hapless lustfull looks.
Society passes him by as he struggles with the harsh manufactured realities of life in the modern day jungle that is our new animal Kingdom.
He is only too aware that earning your pay check is paramount to survival in the modern wild. After all, we all see people like him out on the streets begging and homeless.
He shows that in the corporate office the omega male is a travesty.
In the office he is bullied, by males, physically, by females, sexually.
At the water cooler he is a social pariah
At home he is criticised for his garden
In his house the morning paper delivery is violent
Even his driving is slow and tentitive, as is his placing in the herd.
He is nothing more than a peripheral feeder
His is a quite man
His one dream in life is the hula girl. The ideal of her is embodied in all girls and through their beauty. Nancy was an angel as her smile lit up a room. In reality she was just as animal and ladder climbing as her lower level alternate. Males need to mate, weather its at a watering hole in the jungle or at the cooler in the office.
His masculinity is in his knowing ability to destroy all that is around him.
He knows he has power in a gun.
In the old jungle, females couldn’t bully him
In the old jungle he could kill the males that bullied him
All animals drink at the water source, a place for peacocks and chest beating, not for the omega male.
When he comes eye to eye with another omega male, it dawns on him that he is not alone. He shares a brief moment of chilling kinsmanship with the first shooter.
He saves the wounded girl. Hes already had his hula dream girl shattered, not again.
He nurses her and falls in love, he learns to live as the alpha male, a glimpse of what could have been. She is the one that takes him out of the wheel chair that that Omega life has so cruelly entrapped him to. The hummingbird is his freedom.
But when he sees it all to start unwind, he understands that though Nancys honesty is absolute and genuine, he will never find love. After all he cannot escape the omega male that which he truly is.
His final act is one of self contention, one of what Nancy couldn’t but wanted to do when she was forced into her wheelchair. Thrown back into his own wheelchair he ended it.
Capitalism is the modern Serengeti, the new jungle law, or our manufactured Darwinism, a constructed society now ruled by laws and strangled by bureaucracy. As in the jungle he is just a cretin as he is in the office. It is time to make way for society by removing the weak to make way for the strong.
This is a snapshot of the jungle that the West has built through capitalism; it is why they snap, why they shoot. An omega Gorilla can’t get a gun and shoot in the jungle, but in the new manufactured Serengeti any monkey can go to wall mart and buy a gun.
It is a deconstruction of society at the peripheral, and he is not the only one. It happens in schools, in the army, at the post office. It is the collapse at the perimeter of our new jungle and in the new jungle the Omega can go out with a bang.