This movie follows a vaguely lost Berliner as he spends a day in his city after moving into a new apartment. He has many jarring experiences, is short on money, never seems to have a lighter to smoke cigarettes, and can't quite track down somewhere or something that will provide him with a coffee. We get to see is damages relationship with his father due to lying. We get to see his interaction with a girl he used to bully in highschool for being fat, who had a crush on him. We get to see how he handles the death of a stranger. We get to see a measure of his moral and ethical fiber. It shows that everyone, even pretty good people, are internally tortured and deeply flawed. The average person goes through an immense amount that you don't even realize. This movie directly highlights that.
The scene probably is the one that bothered me the most, was the one with his highs chool bully-ee. She tries to have sex with him, and she asks him to tell her that he wants to "Roly Poly XX (XX being her name that I can't remember)". He of course gets weirded out and ends up offending her. He should have just said "No, I don't want to do that". Our society is chronically bad at communicating desire, or lack of desire. This showcased that in spades, but I guess that was the point.
The scene probably is the one that bothered me the most, was the one with his highs chool bully-ee. She tries to have sex with him, and she asks him to tell her that he wants to "Roly Poly XX (XX being her name that I can't remember)". He of course gets weirded out and ends up offending her. He should have just said "No, I don't want to do that". Our society is chronically bad at communicating desire, or lack of desire. This showcased that in spades, but I guess that was the point.