Then, as a struggling axi-cab driver after a change of fortune during the Depression, he becomes a poverty-stricken, alcoholic "forgotten man" in he 30s."Darabont's film is a patiently-told, allegorical tale (unfolding like a long-played, sometimes painstaking, persistent chess game) of friendship, patience, hope, survival, emancipation, and ultimate redemption and salvation by the time of the film's finale.They noticed the path of charred wheat nearby and the burned wreckage, and saw a naked boy (Aaron Smolinski) in the open module with arms outstretched toward them.Nothing wrong, just an overture to the opera that's coming...but from hen on, you get it from cops, taxi drivers, bell boys, delicatessen dealers...Tom: Got what?Gerry: The Look! You know: (She mimics with a roll of her eyes.) 'How's about this evening, babe?'Accustomed to living in materialistic luxury and spending extravagantly, she is relieved that the windfall has temporarily made them debt-free ("free and clean") and for a short while, they won't be concerned with petty squabbles from landlords, butchers and grocers.