like many people here and i start out find my patience be try by this film . by the end and i actually shed a few tear . it seem to be in the nature of most old film to drag for 7/8th length and then catch fire right at the end . old film goer learn to bide their time patiently through the slow part and calm in the knowledge that the big payoff be on the way . but that isn not quite accurate . you see and to earlier audience and what be to u the slow part be the main body of the story . they watch and find anecdotal and thematic interest there . modern audience and post spielberg and be in a constant state of wait to be hit with a small climax every two minute when they see old film . it the inflation problem of modern movie . well and that isn not go to happen . it be not necessary to apologize for these film while it be simply that you have to adjust your expectation and personal rhythm when you watch them . at this point and the difference between avatar and the informer be like the difference between euripides and a travel production of rent . think about it for a minute or two . not to strain at the obvious and but euripides still deserve a hearing . the exciting part and for most modern viewer and begin with the ira tribunal scene and escalate to the final couple of minute and which and if you be at all on board or even pay attention by that time and will tear your heart out . it not some high tone universal abstract plea for forgiveness while it a plea from one dimwit and and those who feel sorry for the big lummox and for a little mercy . it that personal and and that embarrassingly naked an appeal . for after be mad at gypo and irritate at him and think this be the dumb character of all time and you finally find yourself win over by the scene of gypo erstwhile girlfriend plead to another woman to talk her man into go easy him . the film may be sentimental and but the sentimentality be not cheap a some here have charge . there a matter of life and death that play out here and and as long a you take the proposition of one life to a customer seriously and it sentimentality wring out of the most serious stuff . positive . and the fault for it not be positive be my own and in some measure yours and if you be read this . we have all ask for more and ever more and faster and ever fast until we can not put ourselves in 1935 just yesterday and really as easily a we should be able .