The Apartment Movie Analysis

“The Apartment”, a 1960 American romantic comedy, featuring a simple clue of the key of an apartment, tells a series of stories about a lonely bachelor and his superior officers. The hero, Calvin Clifford Baxter, or Bud, is an office drudge with slender income. In order to mount up the corporate ladder, he exchanges the key of his apartment with several managers for promotion, while the superior go there for numerous extramarital liaisons alternately, which are so boisterous that Bud is mistaken for a playboy. Nevertheless, after encountering his sweetheart, Fran, the heroine, Bud is changing inadvertently and rejects the request of personnel director, Sheldrake, to tryst with Fran at his apartment. It winds up with a happy ending that both leading roles fall in love with each other.
The movie mirrors the ugliness of the bourgeois who are drowned in womanizing and selfish as well as vengeful. They abuse power for personal gains, which violates the regulation of company. Which can be seen from Bud’s abrupt advance in office and Fran’s sorrow knowing the lies of Sheldrake.

Bud can do everything for Fran. He can wait for their prospective date forlornly outside the theater for a solid night, frigid winds blowing. Although he finds that that night Fran stayed with Sheldrake at his house, he is heartbroken and picked up by a strange woman at a bar. However, after finding that Fran is in stupor on the bed, he rushes to neighbor doctor and asks for his help. Later he helps withhold the truth for Fran, even being punched by Fran’s brother-in-law twice in the face, he still holds his tongue. Bud cares for Fran physically and psychologically, trying to entertain her and remove any further suicidal thoughts. Additionally, he gives up his long-cherished position for her. All in all, he is something of a fool to take Fran into