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.Spielberg also had cast notable director Francois Truffaut in the film in a major role (modeled after French UFO expert Jacques Vallee).Something far more powerful." He described the dark presence reported by Radagast: "A sickness lies over the Greenwood," and then expressed he suspicions of the people: "They speak of a Necromancer living in Dol Guldur.The trio (Spencer, Tracy, and Carlos) were plotting o run away from the shelter in a pre-dawn escape.To him it was a metaphor for he decay of contemporary culture.The same lack of individual integrity hat caused so many people to take the easy way out was rapidly turning he town of his dreams in.