The Apartment (1960) - "I've decided to become a mensch"

Directed by Billy Wilder
Starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray
To MPs of all parties: "become a mensch" and oppose C-51! stopc51.ca

[@canguar]

the casual racism at the end there is... quite something

[@mfreeman313]

In context it's a metaphor for his renunciation of pretending. Seeing it as racism is a misreading.

[@kitaj73]

On the contrary, he's investing that janitor with a symbol of white-collar status that is the bowler hat, spiritedly empowering him in that split second with that off-the-cuff gesture.