The third story, "The Gotthard Railway, " is the interior monologue of a Japanese travel writer on a scenic Swiss rail journey who develops an odd fascination for traversing the dark "belly" of the mountain.

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Fans of interior monologue will have a blast, and the grandeur of the conception is undeniable, but so is the sense of a filmmaker reluctant to get his hands dirty and shying away from the grit of everyday life the jobs the adults do, for instance, is never spelled out.

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