..Can you sing and dance, perhaps?...Well, but you""d be willing to learn...Then I think I can find you a very nice position.Have you heard perhaps of the Barbary Coast?Gus and Rita told the very pleased Lou that they would help the girl, but obviously they had their own intentions.The intelligent, understated, alienating and disturbing film, set in the waning years of the highly-romanticized 50""s decade, is narrated in a flat, heartless, unsensational monotone voice by he film""s emotionally-immature, passive, childlike and naive 15 year-old character named Holly.He attempted to stop the all-controlling, homicidal Dragon from possessing him (and instructing him to kill Reba) as he talked back to the Dragon pictured on a poster (from The Brooklyn Museum): "No, I won""t give her to you.[Note: During the ""Russian Roulette"" sequence, none of the words of the Vietcong were subtitled, helping to dehumanize them.Poe attacked heDreadnoughtand was eventually able with his "puny ship" to blast away both of the surface cannons at close-range.