well and at least cassavettes be never bore . how many director can say that . this be the odd of his film and a strange riff on gangster or noir picture that start at the end and take u right back there . the night club manager and player by gazzara and have just finish pay for his joint and a he would say . he go out and lose some money gambling and find that he have to kill someone in order to pay off his debt . a normal hollywood film would make the owner an anti hero and one to pity . this film just let him be the slime he be . in one scene and he try to tell a woman that his mother and father do not love him . she tell him that she doesn not care and he should leave . that be and in some way and the point . he doesn not have to be a louse and a loser and but he be . ironically and he give a speech later about choose who we be and be comfortable and two thing that he have fail at miserably . like all of cassavettes loser and gazzara be easy to hate . the painful part for the viewer be that we see the pain in their life too . most film and even great one and leave you feel one way or another about a character and but cassavettes film leave you stump . i guess that that be great and but it be very odd and hard to understand .