MIDNIGHT COWBOY

It is hard to like any of the major characters in the film. One has some feelings for the delusions of Joe Buck, the "cowboy" of the title, who hopes to score big with rich women. He is certainly handsome enough. (One has only to see Jon Voigt today to see how time is often unkind to young handsome men and beautiful women). And, what is one to make of Ratso Rizzo, for which Dustin Hoffman won an Academy Award. He is dying of tuberculosis. Still, he always finds a new con, another hustle, whereby he can cadge a few bucks from the nanve and unsuspecting. The $20 he takes as a "fee" from Joe creates a sort of male bonding that is unusual in film, if not in real life: Two of life's losers holding on to that tiny raft of hope and expectations. If there is one message that comes across loud and clear it is that big cities swallow up the poor and those unable to sustain a decent life. They are overlooked, passed-by, and forgotten. They become like the daily garbage that is tossed out, waiting to be picked up and taken to some unknow

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