He was a few hours away sure but he could have tried walking home instead of taking the subway, or at least gone out of SoHo to another neighborhood and found some change to take the subway from there, either he was lazy or just stupid but he could have walked home, i have walked from Battery Park to Chinatown and from Central Park to Inwood before, long walks but not impossible.
shareOr go to an ATM and get more money.
"I will not go down in history as the greatest mass-murderer since Adolf Hitler!" - Merkin Muffley
i guess for a period he wanted his keys back.
shareATMs weren't widely available back then. For most people going to the bank (during business hours) was the only way to get cash.
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Well it says in the making of the movie on the dvd that where Paul lives compared to where Marcy lives is basically hours away in terms of walking distance, Paul loses all of his money and is stranded there, cannot afford the 1.50 for the subway at all either, nobody has the money to help him out, and a friend of mine from New York told me that it would take at least three hours or longer to walk from the south end of Manhattan to a point uptown where Paul lived, and Paul had been working all day and was already tired and probably couldnt take the long walk back uptown that night, and Paul still had to go to work the next day and would never wake up on time after a long three hour long walk back to his apartment so he would be late for work and get fired or be forced to miss a day at work which he wasnt allowed to do.
So him not walking makes sense, not being able to find an ATM doesnt but he didnt know the neighborhood at all either.
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He was incredibly stupid. Just about every decision he made was a dumb one. He should have probably just stayed at the metro and found someone to bum 50 cents off. Or maybe ask Ms. Beehive at the bar for change. But accepting the bartenders keys in exchange for his own was dumb. Running after Cheech Marin's in his truck was dumb, and going back to the Marcy's apartment with the sculpture was even dumber! Once he found that Marcy had died that's when he should have just got the hell out of Soho any way possible..not go to the Berlin to look for Kiki!!! By midway through film I lost sympathy for the guy who was just unfathomably dumb!
share"accepting the bartenders keys in exchange for his own was dumb."
For me, this was the most stupid decision in the movie.
Obviously, this would have been a completely different movie had the story focused on the guy just walking home for hours. With that said, it's possible he had his good reasons, e,g. too tired, afraid of running into the wrong people (which he did anyway), or simply finding the idea of making that walk at those hours outrageous. His desperation and the odd situations he gets into are fun to watch.
You want something corny? You got it!
Seriously? You're asking a logic based question for this Movie??
shareWould have been a helluva boring movie...
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