Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife.

