Too timid to speak to Her, he spends most of his time watering her neglected, outdoor plants from four floors above. In the hallway, as she picks up her mail, she's dismissive, too preoccupied with her semi-aggressive boyfriend Jake (Jake Sumner) to notice her upstairs neighbor. Even when he loans her the key to the apartment building, there's still a disdainfulness with which she treats him. In a language of nuance, Safdie plays up these small incidents for comic effect, making inconsideration a laugh worthy element of human interaction.

As if in set up for a long-winded joke, the film's end is a deserved punch line of dark hilarity and an appropriately twisted end for a romantic little short that depends upon not the least bit of romance. If there's a fault at all with The Back of Her Head, it's simply that it ends too soon.