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    From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 23 07:59:47 2022
    I am unclear as to what the pimp was using the pawbroker for. What
    were the forms he was supposed to fill out? Was it just some money
    laundering scheme?


    Tom Benton

    There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.

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  • From gggg gggg@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Oct 23 09:42:32 2022
    On Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 4:59:51 AM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote:
    I am unclear as to what the pimp was using the pawbroker for. What
    were the forms he was supposed to fill out? Was it just some money laundering scheme?


    Tom Benton

    There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.

    According to this:

    - Regarding the plot, Sol lives with his married sister and her husband, keeping them in modest prosperity on the income from the shop, seemingly untouched by the daily procession of human misery that passes through its doors. He allows his business to
    be used as a convenient money-laundering service by a small-time local racketeer, until he discovers the true source of this wealth, the exploitation of poor black women in brothels, and links it to the hell that his own wife suffered at the hands of the
    Nazis. Finally, something has touched a nerve. Sol can not go on with the life he is leading, but can find no way out. He starts to lend ridiculous sums of money on the valueless trinkets that desperate people bring to his shop, and refuses to provide
    the financial services that the local crime-boss demands. As a result of Sol's insubordination the young Puerto Rican man who works as his assistant and sees himself as Sol's pupil in the art of money-making becomes disillusioned with his guru and turns
    back to crime, losing his life in a botched attempt to rob his employer.

    https://w.davidgardiner.net/pawnbroker.html

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  • From gggg gggg@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Oct 23 09:39:43 2022
    On Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 4:59:51 AM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote:
    I am unclear as to what the pimp was using the pawbroker for. What
    were the forms he was supposed to fill out? Was it just some money laundering scheme?


    Tom Benton

    There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.

    According to this:

    - When Nazerman learns that his pawnshop is a money laundering front for a pimp, he must confront both his complicity in exploiting women for profit and his will to ignorance in refusing to piece together the clues he might have recognized buried in
    everyday procedures. Participation in prostitution crushes him, for his Holocaust memories include being forced to witness his wife service a Nazi soldier.

    https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/pawnbroker

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Oct 23 17:15:34 2022
    On Sun, 23 Oct 2022 09:42:32 -0700 (PDT), gggg gggg
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    On Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 4:59:51 AM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote:
    I am unclear as to what the pimp was using the pawbroker for. What
    were the forms he was supposed to fill out? Was it just some money
    laundering scheme?


    Tom Benton

    There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.

    According to this:

    - Regarding the plot, Sol lives with his married sister and her husband, keeping them in modest prosperity on the income from the shop, seemingly untouched by the daily procession of human misery that passes through its doors. He allows his business to
    be used as a convenient money-laundering service by a small-time local racketeer, until he discovers the true source of this wealth, the exploitation of poor black women in brothels, and links it to the hell that his own wife suffered at the hands of the
    Nazis. Finally, something has touched a nerve. Sol can not go on with the life he is leading, but can find no way out. He starts to lend ridiculous sums of money on the valueless trinkets that desperate people bring to his shop, and refuses to provide
    the financial services that the local crime-boss demands. As a result of Sol's insubordination the young Puerto Rican man who works as his assistant and sees himself as Sol's pupil in the art of money-making becomes disillusioned with
    his
    guru and turns back to crime, losing his life in a botched attempt to rob his employer.

    https://w.davidgardiner.net/pawnbroker.html



    Thanks,that clafrfies things.

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  • From gggg gggg@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Oct 23 18:44:27 2022
    On Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 2:15:47 PM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote:
    On Sun, 23 Oct 2022 09:42:32 -0700 (PDT),

    On Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 4:59:51 AM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote: >> I am unclear as to what the pimp was using the pawbroker for. What
    were the forms he was supposed to fill out? Was it just some money
    laundering scheme?


    Tom Benton

    There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.

    According to this:

    - Regarding the plot, Sol lives with his married sister and her husband, keeping them in modest prosperity on the income from the shop, seemingly untouched by the daily procession of human misery that passes through its doors. He allows his business
    to be used as a convenient money-laundering service by a small-time local racketeer, until he discovers the true source of this wealth, the exploitation of poor black women in brothels, and links it to the hell that his own wife suffered at the hands of
    the Nazis. Finally, something has touched a nerve. Sol can not go on with the life he is leading, but can find no way out. He starts to lend ridiculous sums of money on the valueless trinkets that desperate people bring to his shop, and refuses to
    provide the financial services that the local crime-boss demands. As a result of Sol's insubordination the young Puerto Rican man who works as his assistant and sees himself as Sol's pupil in the art of money-making becomes disillusioned with
    his
    guru and turns back to crime, losing his life in a botched attempt to rob his employer.

    https://w.davidgardiner.net/pawnbroker.html
    Thanks,that clafrfies things.

    Concerning him stabbing his hand, is there any significance with that and BLADE RUNNER's Roy Batty stabbing his hand?:

    https://screenrant.com/blade-runner-movie-roy-batty-nail-hand-reason/

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  • From gggg gggg@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Oct 24 18:34:16 2022
    On Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 4:59:51 AM UTC-7, [email protected] wrote:
    I am unclear as to what the pimp was using the pawbroker for. What
    were the forms he was supposed to fill out? Was it just some money
    laundering scheme?


    Tom Benton

    There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.

    (Youtube upload):

    "Conversations on Essential Cinema: The Pawnbroker"

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