Boy, is this guy lucky! I mean, the fact that he gets offed in the end aside (that's mainly his fault, anyway, the chump), he kills three people, and no one notices? And there just HAPPEN to be appropriate noises in the background every time? That's luck, man. That's luck. And you're right, it would make for an interesting short film (although it might be a little difficult to reproduce the metatextual effect given by the fact that everything Weems draws looks exactly like 'real life'). The carnival sound effects were very cinematic. They somewhat reminded me of a Hitchcock movie that I once saw a clip from - this was very early in his career, right after sound came into movies, and, characteristically, he immediately started experimenting. There was a scene where this young woman who'd been involved in a knife-murder somehow (either she'd done it or she was covering up for someone who had; I can't remember) was having breakfast at the boarding house she lives in, and a woman starts talking about this knife-murder that's in all the papers. We're hearing things from the protagonist's point of view while she's slicing some bread for toast, and she's feeling guilty and jittery, and every time this woman says the word 'knife', which is every few seconds, she hears it louder and louder and louder ("mumblemumble knife mumblemumblemumble Knife mumblemumble KNIFE"), until finally it gets so loud that she jerks in alarm - and drops her knife. It's very well done.