This film provided Sirk""s clear commentary and critique of the underlying hollowness and shallowness of American society in the placid 1950s, and misfit lives stunted and corrupted by mental anguish, alcoholism, sexual frustration, and corruptible materialistic wealth.[Jerry presides over the customer in a role that he normally assumes - a powerless, overcharged victim.He exited from the car onto the sidewalk where some Native Americans (in traditional tribal dress) were standing and walking by.Afterwards, she watched video footage that Jason shot of himself - literally his last message before he died, about his desire to do his best in documenting "the truth" with his friends.French detective, Inspector Pascal Popil (Dominic West), who had lost his entire family in the war and specialized in war crimes, viewed the butcher""s disembodied corpse, detecting a scent of cloves oil from the blade, while searching for the missing head.