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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On Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 4:59:51 AM UTC-7, TomB...@agent.com 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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On Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 4:59:51 AM UTC-7, TomB...@agent.com 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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On Sun, 23 Oct 2022 09:42:32 -0700 (PDT), gggg gggg
<ggggg9271@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 4:59:51 AM UTC-7, TomB...@agent.com 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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On Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 2:15:47 PM UTC-7, TomB...@agent.com wrote:

On Sun, 23 Oct 2022 09:42:32 -0700 (PDT),

On Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 4:59:51 AM UTC-7, TomB...@agent.com 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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On Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 4:59:51 AM UTC-7, TomB...@agent.com 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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