Dear Bloggers, I have a question. Why didn't Estha leave, or yell or say anything? Instead he allowed himself to be humiliated, raped even by a perveted old man. But was his mind really all that perverted or just his action. What I mean is did he rape Estha as a way to satisfy his terrible desires, or did he do it to exact revenge upon a society he felt has treated him unfairly. Is he just angry at his position in a post feudal yet hugely impoverished India? He has probably never even had the true chance to escape his predicament, maybe he has even climbed in the social ladder. I don't mean to play devils advokat, and I certainly am not excusing his actions, but I can't escape Thinking about what it was that he said at the end of the scene, "Now finish your drink, you musn't waste it. Think of all the poor people who have nothing to eat or drink. You're a lucky rich boy, with porketmunny and a grandmother's factory to inherit. You should Thank God that you have no worries. Now finish your drink." If I were going to speculate as to which side of the socionomic scale the Lemonorangedrink man grew up on, I would say it was probably the impoverished one. I would bet that seeing a young boy going into a movie, rich white people, who is able to buy cool drinks, instead of being grateful for the dirty, excrement filled river water, fills him with an unbelievable spite. To me it looks like a perverse action that subconciously translates to him literally raping the system, a much more malicious version of telling it to the man.