 Author Jim Sangster said it has a connection to most of Scorsese's later films.Scorsese reexamined a man being trapped inside a picture in the 1990 Japanese-American magical realist "Dreams", where he plays Vincent van Gogh who ventures into his painting "Wheatfield with Crows".Sangster wrote that when Algernon moves his belongings to a new apartment, it is similar to a scene in David Fincher's 1999 drama "Fight Club".