The clown-costumed, insane boy stood there motionless on the front lawn, surrounded by shocked adults (his parents).Beneath the familiar, peaceful, ""American-dream"" cleanliness of the daytime scenes lurks sleaziness, prostitution, unrestrained violence, and perversity - powerful and potentially-dangerous sexual forces that may be unleashed if not contained.The specific mention of uranium in Ben Hecht""s screenplay was timely and prescient - the atom bomb had just been dropped on Japan a few months before shooting began on the film.Cal""s Eavesdropping on Brother Aron and His Fiancee Abra:Inside he icehouse, Cal spied on Aron and Abra, who briefly mentioned that Cal was an anti-social loner ("Why is he so alone all the time?").He plumps up his bed to simulate that he is sleeping there, and escapes through a window, but falls off the top deck onto the next level.