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Spoiler-free premise
An ambitious office worker arrives in New York believing success is inevitable, then begins building a life with a young woman.
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John Sims arrives in New York convinced he is destined for greatness and joins an immense office workforce. He meets and marries Mary, and their apartment, children, employment, leisure, and tragedy test the promise of individual success inside the crowd.
Why it belongs
Through office scale, city crowds, intimate rooms, and a marriage tested by anonymity and disappointment, The Crowd makes one ordinary life visually monumental.
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The skyscraper office reveal, numbered desks, Coney Island, cramped apartments, advertising slogans, stairways, and expressive crowd framing continually place John and Mary between individuality and mass life.
Major award wins
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