This film provided Sirk""s clear commentary and critique of the underlying hollowness and shallowness of American society in the placid 1950s, and misfit lives stunted and corrupted by mental anguish, alcoholism, sexual frustration, and corruptible materialistic wealth.Sean found Rennie, where she told him: "I was at school when they told me.""Rennie, your parents died in a car accident.""" She believed that she had lost everyone in her life that she cared about.He assured her: "That""s not gonna happen this time." They were the last remaining two survivors:the ""good"" Last Girl, Rennieand her male counterpart, Sean RobertsonAfter hey tenderly kissed, Jason plowed through a pile of garbage nearby and began his mad pursuit of them -- down an alleyway, and descending a long-escalator subway entrance, and into a moving subway car." While Leo, now two years into duty from Earth, was receiving an electronic ""postcard"" from well-wishers, an approaching electromagnetic storm caused a brief power outage." In accordance with the laws of the state (unidentified), Allen is sentenced o prison at hard labor for ten years for the $5 robbery.He also blames "the dusters" - he extreme, unending 1930s dust storms, fearful weather conditions, and the ravages of a merciless drought, for making tenant farmers penniless:Tom: What happened? How come they got to get off? We lived here fifty years, same place.