Along with Metropolitan and Barcelona, a print of The Last Days of Disco resides in the permanent film library of the Museum of Modern Art. The DVD releases eventually went out of print, and the film was widely unavailable for home video purchase until it was picked up by The Criterion Collection and released in a director-approved special edition on August 25, 2009. The film was released theatrically in the United States on Jits DVD and video releases followed in 1999. In 2000, Stillman published a novelization of the film. According to Stillman, the idea for Disco was originally conceived after the shooting of Barcelona 's disco scenes. The three films are independent of each other except for cameo appearances of some common characters. The Last Days of Disco is the third film (following Metropolitan and Barcelona) in what Stillman calls his "Doomed- Bourgeois-in-Love series".
Starring Chloë Sevigny and Kate Beckinsale, the film follows a group of Ivy League and Hampshire College graduates falling in and out of love in the disco scene of New York City in the early 1980s. Kim is such a huge part of Disco Elysium to me that as much as I love the rest of the game, it falls away in comparison to the magnificence of one Lieutenant Kim Kitsuragi.The Last Days of Disco is a 1998 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Whit Stillman, and loosely based on his travels and experiences in various nightclubs in Manhattan, including Studio 54. Kim is, at least in some small part, a bit attracted to Harry. Harry is able to suss things out about Kim that most people wouldn't notice, and it's clear that Kim likes the attention-at least when you're not begging him for secrets about himself.
Harry is able to make Kim smile (even if they're just small smiles). And yet, despite all of this, it is incredibly clear that just on a personal level, Kim likes Harry. Kim doesn't succeed at everything, but his failures pale in comparison to Harry's. It sets him up as this almost deified figure to the player character, someone on a whole different level of "has their shit together"ness that it's impressive. We may not know where we are and who we were/are, but Kim will always be Kim, and we can count on him, rely on him even. Kim from the outside is such an average man, but he becomes this rock to Harry, someone who is so put together ( or at least appears to be) it contrasts so completely against our utter wreck of a player character he becomes a source of stability. Kim is, if nothing else, committed to the bit. He has a level of control that is unparalleled, but you can make him give in and go along with your tomfoolery.
Kim is both an unrepentant spoilsport and very silly. Kim sticks by Harry (and MY Harry at the very least stuck by Kim). There is an unspoken devotion there, of one officer to another, of two outsiders to each other, of two men out of their depth in a town that hates them on a case that's mostly a pissing contest between their respective precincts. He doesn't just put up with your shit, it's clear that he respects you as a fellow officer, particularly after he finds out about your case solving track record. You can toe that line, sure, but he has his limits and he's not just some unflinching sidekick who never pushes back. Kim makes it perfectly clear that he would ditch your sad sorry ass in a heartbeat if you crossed the line with him. Harry is an absolutely deteriorating wreck and Kim serves as a perfect counterweight, but their relationship is not an uneven one. What I keep attempting to write: Kim Kitsuragi is a truly amazing character and I love him, both from a character standpoint and how he works as a game mechanic in Disco Elysium.
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