The Story

You're Only Healthy As You Feel

The next scene is painful to watch. Travis is standing in a bare hallway, talking on a wall pay-phone to Betsy, apologizing for bringing her to a pornographic film. When he asks if she received the flowers he sent, the camera begins a tracking shot away from him to the right, moving to a fixed shot of the long, desolate empty hallway next to Travis. His voice-over explains his frustration over his awkward date and the aftermath of her rejection of him - a failed attempt at a normal relationship with an attractive woman. Travis is rebuffed repeatedly (she refuses to date him or answer his phone calls). The camera tracks across the floor of Travis' apartment, where there is a row of wilted and dying floral arrangements returned by Betsy. The flower bouquets are progressively more wilted from left to right.