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.That was my sister Cornelia you pushed in the ash pile.Godfrey: How""d you like to have me push Cornelia""s sister into an ashpile?Irene: Oh, I don""t think I""d like that.Therefore, the murders were being committed by O""Donnell""s ultra-violent rogue group or faction, the Ulster Liberation Army, acting independently of the IRA, although the IRA was being blamed.De Winter sympathizes: "How rotten for you." Her father would paint the same tree over and over: "He painted trees, at least it was one tree...You see, he had a theory that if you should find one perfect thing or place or person, you should stick to it.