Word: alleys
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...dirt streets under a baking midday sun. The sugar season has just begun, so the men lucky enough to have jobs are swinging machetes in the canefields or working in the Aguirre sugar mill. Toddlers amble about shoeless and bottomless, a black hog wanders out of an alley to confront a tethered goat, and idle teen-age boys chat quietly in small groups. Most of the tiny houses are made of scrap metal and salvage lumber. People have two dreams: to own a concrete house and to win big in the lottery...
...from one kind of madness to another. A friendly doctor gets him bounced from the hospital-where, overcome by months of tethered ardor, he tried to rape a woman patient-and into the army. For Pasqualino, the second World War is a survival course which requires all his back-alley resources. He fakes being wounded by stealing the bandages from a dead soldier, thus avoiding assignment to the Russian front. He deserts, gets caught by Nazis and is imprisoned in a concentration camp where dead bodies hang from the ceiling and litter the floor like parched, trampled leaves...
Based by Writer Ted Allan on an autobiographical short story he published in 1949, Lies My Father Told Me is a difficult movie to dislike. It deals mainly in the small change of daily doings−quarrels and friendships on the alley-courtyard where the boy lives, modest hopes raised and dashed, problems and disappointments clumsily but affectionately managed. Even the father is not really a bad man, just bombastic...
...flip-top trash barrel. There is a die and a hinge in the collection of coins. I think that he's a scavenger, like the pick-pocket; even his shoes, with the heels sagging off his ankles like pouting lips, look as though they were plucked out of an alley...
Taylor said she immediately screamed very loudly, and began running blindly from the assailant and another unknown man who surprised her as she walked out of the alley...