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 | | After the gig, Annie leads Danny into the neighboring field for the expected tryst, and the two pause near the tinkling bells of a wishing tree before crawling into a concrete tube bathed in the red glare (a favorite of Jordan’s) of the ballroom’s neons, and it’s here where the film first consubstantiates. |
 | | Danny’s an unlikely killer: He shoots the second assassin only by accident and then admonishes the corpse for the move towards a handkerchief that forced him to pull the trigger, and he unwisely kills his third target while the man speeds them both down a highway, sending the car careening off the road. |
 | | The finale finds Danny, unexpectedly, back near the burnt-out shell of the Dreamland, where the parking lot is now host to a young healer (wearing an incongruous, shiny blue suit not unlike the band uniforms) and his makeshift shrine. |
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