As an aspect of communication, the film seemed to me preoccupied with getting people from here to there. The roller skates in the opening corridor. The arrival on the beach in NZ and how to get off. The tortured journey from the beach to the Neill house. Above all, the many shuttlings back and forth between the Neill house and the Keitel house. The final boat trip taking Hunter and Keitel to town. Another aspect would be the Neill character whom we mostly see building fences or boxing Hunter in. Yet another aspect: the several peepings. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Norman N. Holland Marston-Milbauer Professor of English | | University of Florida Gainesville FL 32611 Tel: (904) 377-0096 | | BITNET: nnh@nervm INTERNET: [log in to unmask] | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+