eventually we think that edward j. robinson is going to knock off his wicked wife.er, by some elaborate subplot, he's managed to get rid of his shrewish wife, and he arrives one night ... and sees his lady love saying sweet nothings and embracing the pimpy character, who blows up when edward j. robinson walks away. chris returns and she ridicules him. she attacks his manliness. he picks up an ice pick and he brutally murders her. however, he's not seen leaving the house. dan durea breaks back into the apartment building, and edward g. robinson stays quiet until dan durea is given the chair. and then, a free man now to paint or whatever he wants to do, it turns out that he's not free. so now he walks around with their voices forever in his head. he's just led to his fate which is to be alone in an empty world. there's a tremendous abundance of things to discuss in the movies and that one can learn in general about culture and the way that it functions, particularly in the modern world. (narrator) a chance encounter becomes a tale of genre theory, feminist analysis, a