We eat and eat at ourselves until there’s nothing left but appetite…
The Lieutenant reluctantly giving the two boys the forgiveness they don’t deserve, that he desperately needs and needed long before the film started is a really morally ambiguous way to finish this. It’s a kind of empathy that I don’t think many filmmakers could even hope to portray, Ferrara's perspective and worldview is more clear than ever here.
To be forgiving in such an unforgiving world might end…
