The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)

This is an imperfect-but-creditable movie. In 1949, Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thornton) works in the barbershop owned by his in-laws in a small California town. His wife (Frances McDormand) is a bookkeeper and an alcoholic, having an affair with her department store boss, Big Dave. An investor comes into the barbershop and convinces Ed to help him start a dry cleaning business. Ed blackmails Dave and takes $10,000 from him. Dave tracks down the investor for information about the deal and then confronts Ed.

The film was shot in color and then transferred to black and white. The soundtrack includes music by Beethoven. The story is heavily based on the works by crime fiction writer James Cain and the 1942 philosophical novel The Stranger by Albert Camus. The uncertainty principle was created by German physicist Werner Heisenberg and it states that the position and momentum of a particle cannot both be known simultaneously with absolute certainty, because the more you know about one the less you can know about the other.