the review of this film unfairly marginalize it for lack of realism . do they scoff at and say and fight club for such reason . it far more unique and interesting for it cache of depression era lore and it assumption about the dispossessed . highly recommend for it bizarre mix of creepiness and homiletic . obviously allegorical and it nevertheless fail i think somehow deliberately in be uplifting and point instead to something sinister in the cripple and maim and poverty stricken denizen of the city . the blind accordionist who attach himself to atwill wear glass which be half black and half clear . his speech be absurdly virtuous cliché and which belie his mendacious appearance in a very unconvincing way . i also notice the back of the envelope calculation atwill make when pitch his stock market club for beggar only involve impossible amount represent million in month . a lot of ticker tape shenanigans go on in the second half of the film and all of which be so exaggerated and i end up think public anxiety about the market be also be channel here quite volubly and along with fear of the disabled and wretched poor . in a word and peculiar .