In The Store Across the Nook, retailer proprietor Hugo Matuschek (Frank Morgan) hires a personal investigator as a result of he’s satisfied one among his workers is having an affair together with his invisible spouse. Matuschek takes out his frustrations on all his workers, with out ever revealing the actual cause for it. Within the movie’s most dramatic scene, Matuschek even tries to shoot himself.
On the similar time, Klara and Alfred’s assaults on one another are additionally changing into more and more sharp. She calls him “a bit insignificant clerk,” at one level replying, “I actually would not wish to scratch your floor, Mr. Kralik, as a result of I do know precisely what I’d discover.” As a substitute of a coronary heart, a purse. As a substitute of a soul, a suitcase. And as an alternative of an mind, a cigarette lighter… which does not work.’
A darkish facet of the vacations
The combination of comedy, romance, tragedy, and the macabre in The Store Across the Nook is very heightened as a result of movie’s proximity to Christmas. The vulnerabilities, insecurities and hopes of every of the characters are laid naked in opposition to the festive enjoyable they need to be experiencing.
“That is one among my favourite subjects through the Christmas season,” says Arnold. “No matter our angle in direction of Christmas, all of us have a love-hate relationship with it. It could possibly encourage nice highs, pleasure, love and togetherness. It could possibly enhance emotions of loneliness, vacancy, melancholy, alienation and cynicism. Generally, we could expertise variations of those feelings each day as we get nearer to Christmas.”
