It’s a pre-internet age and characters are using payphones to make sales calls.
Maybe it’s a metaphor for the ol’ ‘American Dream’ and its fallacies. But it’s mainly just a quote-fest with depressed, desperate lads crumbling. Memorable dialogue is heavy, exchanges that keep you engrossed. It doesn’t matter that the directorial style is a non-thing as it’s the filming of a play.
Impressive.
Wanderings and ... wonderings. 