Dillinger is Dead [related: Papeete, John Herbert Dillinger]
A 1969 film by Marco Ferreri starring Michel Piccoli, Anita Pallenberg, and Annie Girardot remarkable for its juxtaposition of domestic banality and ultra violence. Here "Dillinger" refers not to the film's protagonist but to the Great Depression-era John Herbert Dillinger, infamous for his gangster bravado and flamboyant personality. The federal government used the pursuit of Dillinger to rationalize the development of the Federal Bureau of Investigations ( F.B.I. ) and subsequently increasingly sophisticated (and invasive) techniques of interrogation and surveillance (the legality of which were subsequently questioned in court by actor/historian Studs Terkel ). Ferreri's film ends with the central character inexplicably uxoricide by shooting his wife in the head and boarding a boat to Papeete, Tahiti, a locale associated largely with artist Paul Gauguin's depiction of prepubescent nascent sexual deviance - the black sand of its beaches later becoming slang (see: Urban Dictionary) for various narcotics including heroin, morphine, and "downtown brown".