Made in USA: Conceptual kinship with Pynchon's detectives?....

[Mark Kohut]

Because detectives, like Godard, trade in signs and stories and clues that only abstract and distort and, at best, glimpse the truth. It’s not postmodern games: early on, Karina asks the camera for proof; “Stop telling me stories,” she says later. “I want the truth.” It’s just that the truth, of her lover, and with him, has disappeared.