Hal in V.R. 6: Wave Bye-Bye to the Bureaucrat — "Don’t I wish,’ the ex-bureaucrat says…"
‘Don’t I wish,’ the ex-bureaucrat says over his shoulder, walking away, as the kid shifts the packages and frees one little hand to wave Bye at the guy’s topcoat’s back as the camera, revealed now as mounted on the 0816’s rear, recedes from the platform and picks up speed.
Context
The film's last shot retroactively rewires the whole thing: the camera is "revealed now as mounted on the 0816's rear" — the missed train was the POV all along, and the title's wave goes to a departing machine-eye. And the summary voice can't retell the father's film without doing film criticism: "filmed in a glacial slo-mo"; "It's a clear internal-conflict moment, one of Himself's films' very few" (pp. 688-689). The bureaucrat chooses the kid over the train that is the camera — chooses a person over the lens — which is about as close to a moral as the oeuvre gets (that last framing inferred; the raw gives shot and choice, not the gloss).