The Hobo King and the End of the Tunnel

I think Sam is being initiated in a weird way back into the idea of an enlightened reabsorption into the matrix of pop culture after where he's thoroughly humiliated as a character and his quest is a purposeful failure. He can't rest through the girl she doesn't need to be safe he can't save her all of these things but through that he gains this kind of weird enlightenment of the mundane world. Andrew Garfield says oh at the end of the movie it's Sam realizing he's not special he's ordinary and that's okay. I've gone over the list many times in our joker series from taxi driver onward into all these different iterations you know assassins, serial kills  and