It shows we""re awake and not dunking our heads in the sand like a bunch of ostriches.I want this picture to be a commentary on modern conditions, stark realism, the problems that confront the average man."Although disdainful of her blind-date partner Shelly, Vera let him join her in a borrowed vehicle - Rick""s yellow VW Beetle - to drive to a local convenience store.Joshua demonstrated his loyalty to his boss by having his forearm burned with a cigarette lighter.Murtaugh spoke to Amanda""s distraught father Michael in his place of work (a bank), reporting that the autopsy showed Amanda had been poisoned and that it was a homicide: "she was murdered.With the stash of money they""ve made from selling drugs, hey have financed their trip to the Mardi Gras in New Orleans and eventually to Florida, including the purchase of high-handled motorcycles.