i don't think it was for booze or for his teeth nor his eye.
The scene were he asks for the money is right after the scene were he almost trows his books into the river because it reminds him of his family too much. Maybe the 10$ are for buying more books or something?
oh, and I loved this movie :)
Red needed the $10 hasn't of the humbling. He had lost the race because he became angry at being fouled. In going to ask you for money, it was a a form of contrition. He had to go back before he could go forward. It was like Marty in Back to the Future, he had to stop free asking when someone called him yellow. He finally learned his lesson, and in this scene red also I was learning a lesson that helped him go forward in life.
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The scene was about how Red how to ask for money, hat in hand after how everyone has treated him. Then Howard hands him a 20 and says, "a 10." It's to show that Howard is a good guy who truly cares about Red.
The reason given is the scene is all there is, to go to the dentist.
I didn't think it was for the dentist either. I assumed it was to pay off a bet he didn't win, but who knows. The scene's importance is only to show that a trust was there to just give the money without asking questions (that is, if we're going to doubt is *was* for the dentist).
shareI don't think it was trust as much as it was he was expecting to be treated like a hoodlum and was given a kind of sign that here, see everything in the world is not as bad as you think. you don't have to be angry all the time. The world and life are not out to get you and there is kindness in the world and there are people who care for you. It's presumably because he just needs the money....for debts, maybe....maybe just for food he just didn't want to sound like a lowlife an it hurt just to ask and he isn't used to being shown respect. Which I think is another part of the interaction. He felt like a good for nothing hindrance who nobody wants in their lives. He doesn't respect himself either so he expects to be treated as a burden.
shareI assume it is in the movie not so much because what he's spending the $10 on is important, but to show the developing father-son-like relationship between him and Charles Howard.
I don't know too much about the true story (been wanting to read the book for awhile now, better get on it), did Red ever reunite with any of his family members again?
Probably wanted to get another hooker. Who cares.
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