The film begins in China: "At the turn-stiles of the East - The bund of a great Chinese treaty port." In the busy Chinese shopping district are young girls, a family, and "sky-larking American sailors.Then it sorts itself out and adds up.It""s like finding a clue in a detective story.[Note: For Thomas, this would also hold true.He would have to solve a photographic puzzle with messy parts - clues which eventually sorted themselves out and added up to a possible solution to a murder mystery.This deconstruction of the film revisited various locales of the original film and compared them to the present-day restored Vienna.] Capturing their attitudes toward weapons, Joe mentions how "touchy" he man is, and Joey is mildly cautioned by his mother: "Joey, you know better than to point guns at people.