a movie that ended with the main character lonely and loveless wouldn't be entertaining.

Create a visual, unspoken context, involving two lonely characters, so that a story line emerges through the lyrics.

He's the most sympathetic character, lonely, naive and clumsy, looking for a little elegance in his last hours on earth - life as it should be.

The lonely character that emerges from his exploration is the most demanding, teasing and haunting he has yet conjured up.

But these are lonely characters who must struggle against society as well as their own human failings.

It is as if these lonely characters are experiencing "the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world."

The comics are generally portrayals filled with lost, lonely characters searching for meaning, often reaching back into the past.

Lourenço is a lonely character who buys used goods from people going through hard times.

Is that why you identify so strongly with lonely characters?

The original show, he said, ended on a bleak and unhappy note, with the lonely characters never meeting although they lived only one floor apart.