These are fellow human beings who suffer, who are limited in their freedom to imagine greater happiness for themselves, and yet in their very misery they embody human striving.

It is extremely sad and desolating, a spectacle of mass human desecration. [Full review in Spanish]

Last Exit to Brooklyn is the sort of film you end up respecting rather than liking because it terrorizes your emotions rather than engaging them.

What makes these stories utterly depressing is not the despair they disclose with routine banality, but the utterly relentless violence the film deploys against any character who even attempts to change his/her fate.