Bergman Island’s movie-within-a-film is an explosive reflection of Chris’s interior state as an artist. In Elf, while Buddy is doing work as a mail sorter, he and a fellow worker share a flask the latter has smuggled in, and the latter drunkenly laments the point out of his life now that he's "26-years-aged." In truth, the actor was in his mid-forties, and it reveals.