The plot of the film is about the strident efforts of a neurotic child to be liberated from repressive, matriarchal domination.As the Boy/Projectionist fell asleep in the booth, his ghostly or transparent doppelganger version of his resting body (via double-exposure) rose from the stool and looked through the viewing hole in the booth""s wall at the projected film.In the theatre, Marguerite looks down toward the foot of he staircase at the adoring eyes of Armand gazing back at her.Still linked by his oath of loyalty to the Confederacy, Ethan claims he never relinquished his Confederate cloak or saber after the surrender:Clayton: Well, the prodigal brother.