Bright Lights

Tom is a wide-eyed rural inventor whose heart belongs to Patsy, a woman who has traded the farm for the city's neon glow. Convinced that his lack of social polish is the only thing standing between him and a wedding ring, Tom uses the windfall from a surprise invention to fund a total urban makeover. He arrives in the city draped in the affectations of a 'slicker,' sporting a wardrobe that screams 'new money' and a demeanor that suggests he is trying too hard. He is entirely unaware that Patsy actually mourns the loss of the honest, simple man she left behind. It is a comedy of errors where the protagonist tries so hard to be what he is not that he nearly loses the only thing he truly is. The film serves as a time capsule of 1920s anxieties regarding the cultural chasm between the rolling hills of the countryside and the cold steel of the metropolis.