Courtesy of Netflix, Diane and I recently watched the movie Thief, starring James Caan. This 1981 release was something of a "caper" movie, but not really. If you ever plan to see it and don't like to have the plot twists given away, consider this your SPOILER ALERT, because I'm not going to concern myself with keeping 35 year old secrets. There was a big heist, and the action had seemed in some respects to have been leading up to that point. But the movie didn't give this event the true particularization that is the raison d'etre of a real caper movie. And the climax didn't come until well after that. The key conflict in the movie isn't between those trying to steal the diamonds from the well-protected vault on the one hand and those trying to protect those diamonds on the other. Rather, the real conflict is within the team that succeeds in stealing the diamonds. As part of the set-up for that, there is the conversation in the diner, portr...