Bergman Island’s film-in-a-film is an explosive reflection of Chris’s inner state as an artist. In Elf, even though Buddy is operating as a mail sorter, he and a fellow staff share a flask the latter has smuggled in, and the latter drunkenly laments the state of his lifestyle now that he's "26-several years-old." In reality, the actor was in his mid-forties, and it exhibits.