Red Dots
What is with the red dots on the mens' lapels? Some military insignia?
shareGood question, as I was wondering that myself. Found the following explanation in an insightful review by Richard T. Jameson at the Parallax View website http://parallax-view.org/2009/07/30/hitchcock%E2%80%99s-topaz-revisite d/:
"The director leaves exquisite signs of recognition, turning the tiny and political emblem of the Legion of Honor into an abstract red dot, a lifeless correlative of a potentiality for personal pain and loss ..."