In contrast o the exteriors were the interior dark recesses of the labyrinthine cave-shaft sequences (shot in a studio) that were particularly allegorical - signifying the impenetrable blackness of the twisted mind of the self-destructive protagonist, as he schemed and descended further and further into his own entrapped existential state - literally a hole from which he couldn""t escape.Moving excitedly to the porch, she notices a man approaching - in the center of the frame - who slowly rides in from the desert in a mythic entrance - the man is framed between two distant buttes.You never heard of the place where she comes from...Gamble? She""s done it for a living.Michael: I""ll bet you a dollar I""ve been to the place where you were born.Elsa: Chifu.Michael: It""s on the China coast.Chifu.It""s the second wickedest city in the world.Elsa: What""s the first?Michael: Macao.Wouldn""t you say so?Elsa: I would.I worked there...How do you rate Shanghai? I worked here too...You need more than luck in Shanghai.He becomes more attracted to her during their brief, flirtatious conversation.When they desert the cab and he walks with her into the parking garage, he explains his distaste for cops (and lawyers), and remarks about his wandering travels: "They never put me in jail, in America.g.Owen Taylor and Sean Regan), several other characters appear only momentarily or are rapidly dispatched, and important information is deliberately missing.Jakie threatens: "If you whip me again, I""ll run away - - andnever come back!" Outside he door, Sara reacts horribly to the sounds of her beloved boy being brutally whipped in the bedroom.