- In the longer version, the film does not begin in "in media res." Instead, the story begins with Jessica arriving from the airport and continues linearly until her meeting with Alex at the university. The longer version includes extended background narration of Jessica's thoughts on her run-in with the belligerent man, other places in New York City that she visits (including more of Lower Manhattan, Park Avenue, Central Park, and Times Square), and her musings of the millions of identities in New York City being compared to the millions of separate islands in the world. Her feeling of loss and loneliness among the heavily populated New York City is more focused upon in the extended version, although test audiences complained of the sheer length (10-15 extra minutes of footage) of the original cut.
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