this be a movie that demonstrate that mood and music and texture aren not enough to make a good film . sure and the viewer be treat to numerous fine scene of los angeles in the thirty i especially like the view of the trolley approach the tunnel and and the tram rise up the hillside but in a sense this fine cinematography be self defeating and because it create a mood that something go to happen and nothing do . the script too keep feint toward some plot or action or trauma and time after time not deliver . not even deliver the ( i assume ) theme of the movie and the character essential misfit . the lead actor and both too pretty for their role and do not convey any repression or agony and and the script do not expose u to any . now and donald sutherland . that another story . his character be so well fashioned and so perfectly play and that i want the camera to follow him .