...in this unflinchingly despairing movie is the Juano Hernandez character. The slow-thinking older man, so intrigued with intellectual thought which he haltingly absorbs, focusing on the pawnbroker as the one nearby potential friend to guide him into this world of the mind, and he's so coldly rejected.
I like to think that after that horrid, but electicutingly wake up finale, the pawnbroker will make his amends with the monster thug and keep the front going, out of fatalistic necessity, just to stay alive and sneak in acts of kindness (eg. the desperate pregnant housewife, a few extra bucks there) and give himself over to the aging potential friends who need him as desperately as he need them.
By the way, just saw this one for the first time today, after decades of avoiding it out of emotional terror, and it has me reeling!
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