The film was also interpreted as an allegory of the US"" involvement in the Vietnam War - as the men (the US military) intruded into a foreign world (Southeast Asia), and found it was raped or confronted by wild forces it couldn""t understand or control.However, the spiteful wife was annoyed and hurt that her own children happily and preferably flocked to Letty and gathered around her with their stereoscope (a viewer device hat depicted the illusion of 3-D images), and ignored and rejected heir own mother." To defend her when Chang forced himself on her, Captain Harvey broke into the room, punched Chang in the face and knocked him down to the floor.By putting himself into the thief""s perspective, by imagining and identifying himself as the Cat burglar, and by anticipating and outdoing the copy-cat burglar""s next move, Robie will use his burglary experience to ultimately unmask the real culprit:What I can""t understand is how this thief can imitate me so perfectly.