In the 1920s, the bowler hat was ubiquitous and Magritte used the motif to represent the everyman; by the 1950s, the bowler hat had become less common and Magritte played with the idea that he was the ...

But this weird kid says he's from the future and warns him about a guy in a bowler hat. The bowler hat guy messes with his invention and it fails. He decides that he's a failure and no one wants him.