i do not know much about film making and but good movie have to tell some sort of a story . your character have to start and complete their journey . in last exit to brooklyn they may and but it not in any satisfying way and and i be not mean a happy end and just any end . last exit to brooklyn and set in 1952 brooklyn during a very brutal labor strike and set a number of story thread in motion . most involve some of the most unlikeable character to ever walk across a movie screen . but last exit to brooklyn fails to bring these story to any conclusion . it leave some of them dangle with no end and or blast off into some bizarre stratosphere for an artistic end . two case in point and and they contain spoiler . a sad transvestite character ( an important character in the film ) and be strike by a car and kill . and that it for him in the movie . he go for good and erase from everyone memory . no reaction from his friend and enemy and lover . nothing . in another thread the stupid and clueless and and secretly gay strike leader and have be reject by labor and his gay lover and and find out by the neighborhood thug and get stomp by the thug . the closing scene to the beating show the street of brooklyn and and the streetlight be very and very similar to those of nazi death camp . and the scene drag on and on and on . and the camera pan down to the body of the labor leader and and he be crucify . ppppuuuulllleeeeeez . and of course that it for him too . brain erasure . go . bottom line . no matter what the reviewer originally say in 1989 about this film . this movie be a depressing piece of sludge . avoid it . and if you do not be forewarn and it really deserve an nc 17 rating for massive amount of physical and emotional and sexual brutality . do not even let the teenager watch .