She summed up how the brutal, real-life lesson had aught Sebastian a transcendent religious experience about life and death.[One must ask in retrospect after viewing the entire film, is the man with crutches the doomed protagonist of the story (Walter Neff), or the doomed man he impersonates (Mr.I""m kinda a musician.A free-lance musician.Amy: Where do you live? And why can""t I call you over there?Harry: (lying) ""Cause I don""t have a telephone.""Dutch"" proposed buying the gun, but his request was rejected, and they exchanged more reproaches - it was inferred that ""Dutch"" was being hunted by McAdam for some past wrong, possibly a cold-blooded murder:Dutch: That""s too bad! That""s oo much gun for a man to have just for shootin"" rabbits!McAdam: Or for shootin"" men in the back!Both men prepared to pull out of town after retrieving heir confiscated guns from the Marshal""s office.An officer gives the signal for a man on a ladder o ignite the gun.The rocket shell is fired out of a monstrous iron cannon pointed into space.As he hollow, bullet-shaped shell moves through space, the moon approaches [in a sophisticated, multi-plane process shot] and is magnified.