I can always tell.You have a certain way of opening up the door.You know, first the key goes in real quiet, and then the door comes open real fast, just like you think you""re gonna catch me at something." Sidney tells Rita hat he is "avidly" paying attention, although he is only half-listening and half-interested (he""s more attentive to the other people in the nightclub - the returning musicians and Susan and Steve""s parting).He remembered how - as a privileged young man - he had given up college to volunteer for military service, and hat he admired other lowly and disposable "grunts" (mostly teenaged male high-school dropouts from small towns, all poor, black and Hispanic) as the "heart and soul" of he war effort, used as infantry bait:(voice-over)Of course, Mom and Dad didn""t want me o come here.In the haberdasher store, Willie tries on one hat after another (a total of thirteen different hats in all), mostly filmed from the perspective of a mirror - a checkered taxi-cab style hat, a white fedora, the checkered hat (a second time), a black fedora, the checkered hat (a third time), a wide-brimmed straw hat, a dark felt hat, another light straw hat, a dark western hat, another straw hat, a roundish hat, a high-crowned straw hat, a pork pie (Keaton""s trademark hat), and an oversized felt hat.