[Note: This opening sequence was almost incomprehensible with lots of rowdy drunks and half-heard mumbled conversations in the dimly-lit bar.Outside the slave quarters of the plantation, the white masters are entertained by the dancing and performance of black slaves, their family servants.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.Yelburton, with an icy but pleasant request, greets Gittes and ushers him out of Mulwray""s office: "I wonder if you""d care to wait in my office?" In his own office with walls adorned by a large stuffed game fish, photographs, and a painted symbol of a fish [the flag of the Albacore Club], Yelburton is convinced that the scandalous stories about colleague Mulwray are totally groundless: "Either he""s the kind who chases after women or he isn""t.He stares with hate in his eyes at the sinful burlesque dancer (Gloria Pall) (seen through a keyhole iris), despising the sexy woman because she arouses his carnal instincts.