Top cast:Mack Sennett,Marion Leonard,Herbert Prior
Director:Ryan Coogler
Genre:Film-Noir
Region:Nigeria
Year:2002
Storyline:Midge asks him about his "aches or pains." He exults, hopefully, that he will be a "free man" the following day when his painful ("it binds") but therapeutic feminine corset is removed and he can dispose of his cane "out the window" - an ironic choice of words.Prologue:A light-colored station wagon drives through the fog up to an old, dusty baroque mansion.The inside of the enormous luxurious chateau is disheveled and messy, showing evidence of the previous night""s party/orgy.I""ve gotta hunch it""s me from here-on in...I mean, did that ever happen to you? When all of a sudden, you feel like you can""t miss? ""Cause I dreamed about this game, Fat Man...but one thing that keeps coming up is this woman singer.She lives in an apartment building that is real close to your house.It""s also close to the field where you found the ear.Jeffrey (naively): It""s a strange world, isn""t it?Sandy: Yeah.Sandy""s information urges Jeffrey forward into the mystery.She explains that they had the woman "under surveillance" for a couple of months, but it is presently not her father""s case.She surreptitiously gives a letter to the attendant (Bob Sherman) to post for her.While they continue driving (and the camera views them head-on through the windshield in a medium two-shot), she is condescending toward his kind of affluent, narcissistic, ""playboyish"" man - character traits that she has analyzed and deciphered from all his unfavorable outward appearances and clues: a flashy sports car, jazzy radio, trench coat and fancy clothes, and a tough-guy, hedonistic, self-serving pose.