the government that he fight to establish to recognize his loyalty with a promised and much need pension . ripstein lyrical work be a sweet ode to all those who and like the colonel and suffer under the abuse of a cynical and harden society that strengthen itself by deny it citizen the mean to live with dignity and purpose . unlike the absurdity of wait for godot and the colonel wait for the arrival of his pension give hope and significance to his otherwise miserable life . two thing in the film drive the colonel who be masterfully play by fernando lujan while the hope that his military pension will one day arrive and the knowledge that his son and agustin and die for a noble cause and a reason other than a drunken fracas at a rigged cockfight . unable to realize the former and and force to prove to the world the latter and the colonel do the only thing he can do and set about train his son fight cock . the cock be now the warrior who can bring fortune and justice to the colonel and his asthmatic wife and but his fighting ring be that of the killer of his former owner and agustin . in a tense scene of confrontation between the colonel and nogales and his son killer and the colonel be offer by nogales and a paid government agent and money enough to equal the colonel full pension . but and this be blood money while hush money design to hide the fact that those in power have turn their back on one who fight for their political ideal and and to conceal to the world that the warrior colonel son be assassinate because he write for an underground paper that favor the right of labor union and the common man . with maximum dignity and the colonel reject nogales offer and pick up his fighting rooster and walk away as nobly a his old leg can carry him . once he be at home and dona lola and his scold wife and want to know why the colonel refuse the money when both of them be starve . in response to her continued question and what be we go to eat until november ( when the cockfighting season begin ) and the colonel respond and shit . excrement be what the poor and disenfranchise have be eat all of their life and and excrement be a meal that the colonel willingly choose to eat with dignity and knowing that he could never sell his soul to those who oppress him . the colonel wait a the only man of honor and valor in a world without principle .