Like a racing horse restricts its visions to one goal, shutting to any other temptations and lures that will hinder its mission, a Modern city is characterized by its indomitable idea of stead-fastness and progress. Modernism tried to project ideals on human society that were 'humanly' impossible to achieve. For the fruit of progress, it asked for a price too big to be paid. It aimed to take away man's distinctiveness as a human-being which differentiated him from a machine.
Such an idealist projection sounds like a symphony, pleasing to the ears but difficult to be played. This rather dead symphony of a Modernist crowd, gives off a bubble of lively seclusion. Inside this bubble is where two distinct kinds of characters are born- that of an aloof that pays no heed to the mechanization around and that of a wanderer, who saunters around rebellious to the Modernist projections on him.
These attitudes were inevitable like a fraction of noise in the melodious symphony. Walter Benjamin regarded these attitudes as blase and flaneur which came into being like a resistance to the Modernist utopia. As a symphony never approaches absolute, similarly a modernist society can never claim to be free of these attitudes and characters.
Side-lined by everything the crowd is about or what it aims at. This makes it even harder for the two characters to burst that bubble of seclusion and join the crowd. There lies a mythical exposition underscoring the stead-fast modernist crowd, which only the two characters are able to register in their minds. And cheer the world of their own.
