----------------------------Original message---------------------------- The naming of the characters in RD works in the context of a plot to carry out a well-executed plan. All the details which go into this plan are negated by the fact that we already know the minute the film opens that the robbery was a failure. The naming of the characters highlights the absurdity of their logical plot in a universe which has already declared them failures. More than Pelham, 123, RD seems to have more in common with The Killing--a film in which all the plans and the plots and the assignment of roles is contradicted by a reality which does not favor human plans.