How is Graham making money?
Ann asks him... he says it's under his mattress... jokingly I assume...
I didn't understand.. how is he getting his money?
... or what the hell is he doing in life in the first place? Or what brings him to Baton Rouge? If he's seeking closure with Elizabeth, why didn't he at least contact her?
It's never explained in the movie. Graham is pretty much a carte blanche. And, cinematically speaking, this is probably a good idea, since we know so much about the other three characters. This imbalance creates tension.
If you read the printed screenplay with Soderbergh's diary on the production, it was originally planned to indicate that Graham got all the cash he hides in his mattress from a settlement from a car wreck. The Elizabeth angle (his motive for coming to Baton Rouge) was also greatly enlarged, but Soderbergh decided in the end to streamline the material so as to focus on the four principals. I personally think he should have ommitted any reference to the unseen Elizabeth as its inclusion in the finished product looks like an afterthought.
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