card The city should be vast, anonymous, freeing— millions of strangers, endless noise. Yetunder paranoia its bigness collapses intosuffocation. The crowd becomes a cage, thestranger becomes a watcher, the metropolisbecomes a single hostile room. Vastnessshrinks, freedom becomes entrapment, the manybecome one. Rosemary's Baby: NYC shrinks toone building. Kimi: agoraphobia andconspiracy. The Truman Show: town collapsesinto a stage set.