It's a gutting film and a heart wrenching performance, one that gets to the core of what happens to families that live paycheck to paycheck and teeter over the brink of poverty, in
danger of tumbling into the abyss with even the slightest provocation.
Aside from a vague sense
of the
danger presented by Robie's former Resistance pals, and the momentary brush with gravity when a secondary character
tumbles to his death, To Catch a Thief bristles with suggestions
of French words pertaining to lightness, fluff, pastries, and respite.