Franco played the lead, and as we all know by
now, churned the stomachs of everybody in the audience with the film's visceral final scene, in which his character snaps his arm and severs it from the rest of his body with a
dull knife to break free.
The portents have hung in the air for a while, but it's clear
now that the traditional dumb PMP is dead, like a
dull and rusted Swiss army
knife.