CauseWithoutARebel's Journal: Have you ever noticed how the self-loathing loner...

... in film always has either a foil to drive a purpose, or some imbued purpose from the get-go which ultimately turns him or her into a self-redeemed anti-hero or tragic hero? Max Fischer, Donnie Darko, and the ultimate tragic hero, Travis Bickle (tragic, at least, if one accepts the interpretation of a dying Bickle, or a Bickle who almost immediately regresses into depression upon the reintroduction of Betsy in his cab at the end of the film).

Somebody should write a screenplay revolving around the tragic or anti-hero who is never given his purpose or foil. I'd wager there are far more of them on this planet than there are Travis Bickles or "Hancocks".

Of course, I'll bet one would have a hard time seating a theater for a ninety-five minute display of a fat, aging, middle-management schlub on the verge of a drinking problem and who is only two more words away from a divorce.