Bartleby - Trailer (2001)

This absurd, Kafkaesque, highly stylized black comedy is a first-class satire on bureaucracy, alienated labor and divisions in modern society, and a surrealist poem about lost humanity and compassion. BARTLEBY transports Melville's classic short story, 'Bartleby the Scrivener' into a surreal contemporary nowhere world, where computer-generated office complexes sit perched above the freeways on lonely, grassy plateaus.
The Boss, played by the deadpan David Paymer, occupies a shabby ground floor office in one of these anonymous buildings. His firm handles municipal public records, and he hires Bartleby, a former employee in the postal service's dead-letter office, to help with the filing and verification of claims. Bartleby's co-workers are the flashy-dressing wiseguy wannabe Rocky (Joe Piscopo), the slovenly Ernie (Maury Chaykin) and the sex-kittenish, alliteration-prone office manager, Vivian (Glenne Headly).