Characters appear and disappear here, just as in the later anthology film. Often times some of the most interesting characters in Caught appear in just a single scene, such as the psychiatrist. The heroine's girl friend and confidant disappears completely less than half way through the movie, never to be seen again. In La Ronde , characters disappear when their episodes end. These vanishings leave an odd emotional effect there, but they seem even funnier in a narrative work like Caught .
Locations too show up, play a major role, then completely vanish again.
Often times we only get tantalizing glimpses of them, such as the yacht or Ryan's L.A. mansion. They hold out temporary interest to the heroine and to us in the audience, but they are never seen again. Just as in La Ronde , the characters are always late and life is always slipping by them, so too does every thing rush by and vanish in Caught . Many of the encounters in Caught are between two people, just as in La Ronde . The characters often discuss their intimate feelings about romantic encounters in such sessions, in both films.