Title Analysis

The title Open City serves to describe how out of control, yet ever flowing the world and time is to humans. The life of one human is insignificant to lives of 7 billion, just like how a single planet, in a single solar system, in a single galaxy, is insignificant to all of space. And yet, even that is nothing in the scale of time, so what is the point of the life of a human? Julius represents a single man existing in the open city of time, who serves as a medium of stories of many people and experiences, which altogether represent the city.