Between this and Nashville, Altman has made two of the most quintessential films about the American Dream. A darkly comic, melancholic, and suffocating portrayal of capitalist culture as it began to take root in the American ethos.

Did the English teacher thing and pulled up the poem the second the credits finished rolling.  

Shriek to the echo, and the low winds moan,
There the true Silence is, self-conscious and alone.

Yeahhh