Colin then pressed for a date that evening, but she declined: "I""m busy tonight." She claimed she would be having dinner (of rabbit) with her older sister.Colin had presumably been rejected before by Carol: "You really make me feel wanted." He proposed meeting her at a pub (The Hoop and Toy) the next night at 7 pm for a date, but she was mostly unattentive and unresponsive.The influence of the film extended to commercial merchandise in the form of hairstyles, authentic period music of the 30s, and gangster retro-clothing (such as double-breasted suits, berets, fedoras, and the maxi-skirt).In the film""s calm but startling opening voice-over, a depressed, cynical, middle-aged, 42 year-old suburban father Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) briefly introduced himself, while foreshadowing his own death - he would be dead in less than a year:(voice-over) My name is Lester Burnham.In a series of confrontational closeups, he tells them of the cattle rustling and implies in a subtle exchange that his duty as newly-appointed Marshal is to find his brother""s murderers.[Note: This scene foreshadowed his preoccupation with the Blind Girl and the predicaments he became involved in during his association with her.