Last Moments (1974)
1/10
Things you can't unsee
9 May 2022
Warning: Spoilers
No point telling me I am the perverted one here.

A good looking kid, sweet as pie and innocent beyond belief helps his stripper mother undress after a show and who subsequently abandons him and lives with an alcoholic father while he works all the hours to earn his keep.

All the old guys in town love him and one day they realise he hasn't got long to live. His medication for anaemia is an old queen's dream as the kid says no no no but is told it is good for him and he submits

The old guys in town all club together to give him his last wish - a day at the circus. Mother shows up.

Lee J Cobb and Cyril Cusack put in an appearance.

If I didn't know better, I'd think this was a thinly veiled confession or love letter to a kid who served some chaps very well and who they were sorry to see go.

In the light of behind the scenes movie de generacy and kid movies being an excuse for predators on the set to have their pick, I can only draw one conclusion from this icky excursion. Cusack tells us which god is looking on in a very ungodly way and the kid is sacrificed.

Apart from a few quivering lips when the boys insists on working to earn money for his parents happiness, no one cares. Read between the lines.
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