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Not knowing what to do with him, the cops take him to a detention center, where they summon psychiatrist Evelyn , a recently divorced single mother with a nine-month-old baby. He reveals that his name is Doug, short for Douglas. “I’m not sick, I’m just tired,” he says, and he will prove to be a very obliging patient.
For a while, Besson simply concentrates on Doug; how he fell in love with his drama teacher, and how he was crushed to find that, years later, she was married and pregnant. He also spends time following Doug on his quest to find a job, being turned down for every menial task imaginable, shooting from a low angle that intensifies his humiliation as a disabled man.
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