In Walter""s office are two of his buddies: gangster-type Diamond Louis (Abner Biberman) and managing city editor Duffy (Frank Orth)." While attending an afternoon screening ofDuck Soupat his local repertory movie theater, one of the film""s characters - a depressed and neurotic NY Jew named Mickey Sachs (played by Allen himself), who is afraid of disease and dying - experiences a climactic epiphany hat life was meant to be enjoyed, by narrating: "And I started o feel how can you even think of killing yourself? I mean, isn""t it so stupid?.From behind - in a mirror image, he watches her exhibitionism as she finishes buttoning up her dress and putting on her lipstick, and remarks: "I hope I""ve got my face on straight.He also speculates hat Jake may have ""found himself"" in the interim:Escobar: You look like you""ve done well by yourself.Without cheap thrills, gore or sensationalistic elements, it expressed concerned with the menacing presence of evil surrounding us in the alienated, every-day, mundane city environment.