Kleinman is despised by everyone. Even his ex-fiance wants him dead. Not to mention the killer lurking in the fog who has the town up in hysterics. There’s associations which Kleinman is apart of but really he is on his own, a coward in his ignorance to everybody’s “plan” which he’s screwing up. He’s a scared brown nose to his pervert boss. But on a pinch of luck he meets a docile woman who encourages his integrity and ambition. He is accused of being the murderer and she defends him from the mob. He runs and escapes. Later in the night he crosses paths with the woman again as the killer is about to strangle her– Kleinman defends her but then must run from the killer. In the end it seems that our hero runs from evil and turns out to be running in the direction of his dreams(but he must chose to run in the direction of his dreams). The ending pissed a lot of people off but I disagree with their exacerbation: I see it as a beginning rather than an ending. & the only weak part of the movie was when Malkovich stood hollow as he learned how his lover cheated on him from the man she cheated with. It was unnerving to watch him let the man go with out a slug or anything but maybe that was just what Woody Allen wanted, us to be thrown, C’est la vie.