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...street outside, Ralph Lucero passes by, wet T shirt in hand to use as a mask against the smoke. The 35-year-old general contractor has just come from saving a stranger's house. "I saw this wall of flames," he explains, "and I saw no one doing anything. I ran toward it, and then this 25-year- old guy started coming over and said, 'Hey, dude, you need some help?' And about five other guys came over and started helping too." He gazes through the haze and flames at another building, still standing. "That belongs to a friend...
...from her home in Petaluma, California, has shown up everywhere: on television, on computer networks and on flyers in supermarkets, libraries and hospitals. The explanation for the ubiquity of the girl's image extends beyond a fascination with the brazen nature of the abduction: a knife-wielding bearded stranger intruded on Polly's slumber party. It even transcends the reward offered by actress Winona Ryder, a former Petaluma resident, who pledged $200,000 for information leading to the girl's return...
Paul Cubeta, the director of the Breadloaf program then, says Marius' decision to hire Wesel on the spot was unusual. It was even stranger when one considers that Marius did not ask Cubeta for Wesel's resume or references, which Cubeta had on hand...
This all but destroys the supposed deeper meaning of the film. Eventually you begin to suspect this story would work better on "Geraldo" than as a metaphor exposing gender and race as performance. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction, and in this movie Gallimard's story seems so peculiar it simply does not hold any implications beyond itself...
...really, it's perfectly normal. They're bored, maybe a little lonely, so they throw a stranger into a fence, kick him a few times, and spit in his face. It's nothing that doesn't happen every day at Alcatraz...