He was a few hours away sure but he could have tried walking home instead of taking the subway, or at least gone out of SoHo to another neighborhood and found some change to take the subway from there, either he was lazy or just stupid but he could have walked home, i have walked from Battery Park to Chinatown and from Central Park to Inwood before, long walks but not impossible.
shareI've always felt that Paul had a love/hate reaction to his night on the town. We see early in the movie that he's bored with his life and wants a little adventure. He gets an adventure all right, and I think he's both scared and fascinated by it at the same time.
shareI watched the movie right now.
It's nice observation.
Why didn't Indiana Jones just stay in the museum and have a nice cup of tea?
shareIn IMDB they said this:
"It would have taken Paul approximately 1 hour 47 minutes to walk home. (The distance from Paul's uptown apartment ("East 91st Street") to Kiki's SoHo loft ("28 Howard Street, near the corner of Crosby") is approx 5.3 miles.) [Google Maps]"
I can understand why at least in the beginning of the movie he didn't want to talk home.
(1) 1 hour and 47 min is still long walk to go.
(2) It's very cold and rainy
(3) New York of 80's is not good place to walk alone at night.
(4) He tried from a long day
and you really walk from Central Park to Inwood? In google map it's 6 hours?!?
He did try walking home at one point, but he was interrupted, just like in the rest of the movie. He mentions this at his first visit to the bar across from the waitress' apartment.
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