Revolvers were a common motif in Man Ray's work. This image is a variant of one used by Man Ray in his script for a segment of Hans Richter's 1946 film Dreams That Money Can Buy, which was published in the December 1944 issue of View. "As though describing a dream, it recounts the mimetic reactions of an audience viewing the film. Completely controlled by the images and actions of the well-known, but uninspired, actor on the screen, the passive assembly neither understands nor appreciates their situation. In the text, Man Ray disgustedly notes their powerlessness, their inability to see beyond the obvious. '[I]t is like this coin,' he concludes, 'People look only at one side of this for the more prosaic details of value, country of origin, motto, but look carefully at the other side and you will see the real decorative value.' As if describing a personal currency, he used the film to note again the theme of misunderstanding that permeated his American career." (Perpetual Motif, p. 280).