i saw this movie when it first come out and be impress by it slacker ( the film ) like construction . i like the interweaving of character and the jarmusch night and pavement atmosphere and i even get off on the relentless pound brutality and big time irony and i felt and cool . than i saw it again on cable and in my own living room and not in a chic lincoln center cinema and no trendy audience to share my titillation . and i saw something relentlessly ugly and like watch someone try to convince you he need treatment by slowly and progressively chop off every part of his body . you watch in wonder and disgust . but what the message .