From the short story to the film, I think that there were both similarities and differences in the storytelling of each. Initially, I thought that just by looking at the aged man in the film it didn't replicate the old and lonely man in the short story. Certain things that could contribute to this is the lighting. Emphasized numerous times in the written story that the eldest customer always sat in the shadowed area of a tree that was just outside in the cafe's outdoor space. In the short story, they always said how it was light, clean, and put together in the cafe, but the man chose to sit in the only shadowy part of the cafe. This helped show the old man's lonliness and depression.
Furthermore, there are some similarities within the short film and stories. One thing I thought they did really well on was making sure that the difference between the bar and the cafe were significant. The cafe was obviously well lit, orderly, and everything was perfectly in tact. In the cafe the floors were shining and all of the chairs were set perfectly with a polished bar. On the contrary, the bar that the middle-aged waiter went to was dirtier and filled with people. This shows that there needs to be a place for people to go, into a clean and quiet environment, that doesn't have the people, noise, or dullness.
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