an absorbing ( although repetitive and rather didactic ) analysis of exploitation and despair in a situation where there be no way forward or up and where the attempt to make yourself feel well by violate and put down whoever be below you seem to be the only option . but even here and in this desolate wasteland of lose dream and no future and that do not work and and reach out to something or someone to comfort and share with and a simple act of charity and give some reward and even if it just make the present bearable by revive memory of the past . although there be little actual on screen violence and this be a harsh and brutal film about the small mindedness of oppression ( politically and personally ) that do not make for easy entertainment . clearly base on a play and with a small cast and a broad more expansive relation to the general social and political environment would possibly have help the film to reach a wider audience .