Yeh, the 'bite the curb' thing really shocked me, I never realized you could actually go that way. But yeh, the movie was excellent, the ending was really depressing too.
It is a great film, however i find too many people praise it in order to celebrate their supposed "political correctness" and strictly for that reason.
Great great movie, easily in my top 5 of all time. At the risk of sounding sappy i was 21 when i went into the theaters and saw this, needless to say it opened my eyes quite abit on the way i was thinking etc. Heh can't believe how much of an angry kid i was back then