the lyrics to "what in the world" sound like they were inspired by 'falling down,' joel schumacher's portrait of modern-life in meltdown, which follows michael douglas, fired from his defense-industry job and enraged by freeway gridlock, as he abandons his car on an l.a. expressway and sets out for home on foot. he gets caught up in a series of neighborhood vignettes as he goes, involving various "what the f- is wrong with this world" moments, much as the protagonist of grotus's song does, and each of which douglas's character attempts to right in an increasingly unhinged fashion. 'luddite,' however, came out a year before schumacher's film, which makes the last four lines of "what in the world" kind of eerie.
the lyrics to "what in the world" sound like they were inspired by 'falling down,' joel schumacher's portrait of modern-life in meltdown, which follows michael douglas, fired from his defense-industry job and enraged by freeway gridlock, as he abandons his car on an l.a. expressway and sets out for home on foot. he gets caught up in a series of neighborhood vignettes as he goes, involving various "what the f- is wrong with this world" moments, much as the protagonist of grotus's song does, and each of which douglas's character attempts to right in an increasingly unhinged fashion. 'luddite,' however, came out a year before schumacher's film, which makes the last four lines of "what in the world" kind of eerie.