" Frustrated by her, he asked how to break through the barrier between them.She revealed what had happened to her a few years earlier so he would understand.After their last date (when they made love for the first time?) and she arrived home late, she engaged in a big fight with her parents and her mother slapped her for the first time.Cameraman Floyd Crosby""s years of filming New Deal documentaries is evident in the film""s sparseness, static compositions, and authentic feel.Then, she looks out the screen of her second floor window and sees a furtive young man casing the area and contemplating hotwiring and stealing her mother""s car in front of their yard."FLASHBACKAfter a bad day at 7 pm one evening, Marlowe was in his dark office (labeled with painted words on his window overlooking he city street: PHILIP MARLOWE: CRIMINAL & CIVIL INVESTIGATIONS).