"In this lifetime, you don't have to prove nothin' to nobody except yourself. And after what you've gone through, if you haven't done that by now, it ain't gonna never happen." 努力不一定成功但至少会有人认可即使梦想看起来那么愚蠢而遥不可及
Losey keeps everything to a disarming cool, downplaying psychological irregularities with elliptical cuts and treating exaggerated genre clichés with a straight face. The film crystallizes the contradictory tug between materialism and humility, anxiety and hope, and faith and distrust that defined the US consciousness in the early postwar years.