Mechanized noises, typing, and electronic sounds encompass the sterile, cold, Orwellian-style office environment which Simon tolerates every miserable day. The dictatorial setting and uninviting mise-en-scene show the workers in their separate cubicles, disconnected from their coworkers and focused on dull, meaningless tasks. Primarily neutral tones consisting of browns, blacks, grays, and whites demonstrate the distinct lack of color and life that exists not only within Simon's world but everybody else's as well.
In the film, people act like robots and don't really feel anything. The citizens of the nondescript town and location are numb to a society that has primed them for a life of subservience and dedication to the system, and to a Big Brother-type figure named the Colonel (James Fox) who runs the whole operation. There's a scene in which Simon is watching a creepy television ad with his aging mother (Phyllis Somerville), where a floating voice recites, "The Colonel will show you people in a way your business can understand because the Colonel knows there's no such thing as special people, just people."
Simon is a "non-person" to his co-workers and his mother, who doesn't even want to hear him speak. He may as well not exist, considering he's residing in a society that doesn't value or acknowledge the uniqueness of individuality, one where being a faceless, nameless sheep in a herd is the accepted norm.
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