Los Angeles–residing attorney friend: “Having seen it again, I believe Marty Supreme goes seriously awry with the fate-of-the-dog scenes. (Abel Ferrara’s gangster pays to get him back but what happens exactly?) Somehow all is forgiven at the end because Marty cries in the maternity ward. His character is an agent of chaos. If different choices had been made in place of this subplot, it could have been a much better film.”
HE to attorney: The chaos is the juice and the ju-ju. Either you get the Marty scheme or you don’t. The dog is fine.
Attorney to HE: “Two people apparently dead from gunfire. Not to mention the inferno at the gas station. And the dog has no master anymore. These are important parts of my analysis.”