Anguish

“The eyes of the city are mine.”

John Pressman (Michael Lerner) wants to please his mother, Alice (Zelda Rubinstein), and what she wants is eyeballs, which he supplies by going to work for an ophthalmologist and killing for them. Bigas Luna then bends the story so that the people watching it and the people in it no longer share the same reality. Between John and Alice sits a hold that neither of them tries to break.