On one of their drives, the young woman reveals how he has brought her happiness, but the mysterious man treats her both brusquely and condescendingly:Woman: You know, I, I wish there could be an invention that bottled up the memory like perfume and it never faded never got stale.Unaffected, he clean-living, career-oriented Lucy explained how she wished to become a suburban wife "with a husband, mortgage and children" and o pursue her career in advertising.[Note: Lange was also nominated in the Best Actress category as tragic, ill-fated, self-destructive, mentally-ill starlet Frances Farmer inFrances (1982).] Atypical forfilm noirs, the main protagonist in the film is a female - but she is typically brought down by afemme fatale- her own daughter.[Note: Some of the original performers, Tim Curry, Patricia Quinn and Little Nell Campbell, also appeared in the subsequent film.