I had never seen the movie and decided to watch it after reading this article! I work a government job and I have to deal with a frustrating amount of outdated, unnecessary, nonsensical bureaucracy: everyone is comically obsessed with using the right form, filling it in correctly and putting it in the right folder, while the real issues are never addressed, or even acknowledged. The restaurant scene is haunting, sure, but the moment when Harry Tuttle is covered from head to toe with the paper flying all over and can’t move anymore? I felt that.