That""s what I""ve been fighting against for years, the way they commercialize Christmas." Alfred agreed with his assessment: "A lot of bad ""isms floating around his world, but one of the worst is commercialism.He witnesses, first as a voyeur, a sexually-depraved, blackmailing relationship between a monstrous, loathsome, nitrous-oxide sniffing kidnapper (Dennis Hopper) and an abused/brutalized mother and fragile nightclub singer (Isabella Rossellini).He side-stepped blame, arguing that he wanted to see the effects of the Chimera viral disease in the real-world...?" The man disregards Dobbs, turns away, moves on and tosses his half-smoked cigarette butt into the street.