Ending was too abrupt! *Spoilers*

The ending was really the only one if life was being depicted as reality - as it was, and as something we don't often see on the screen. Yes, it was very abrupt - sort of like running up against a brick wall, which, ironically, is how the problem began in the first place - both literally and figuratively. We always talk about loving thy neighbor, but real life is hard, cold, and greed (and crime) permeate it - do thy neighbor one better is more the rule as to how things really are. The father, an honest man who only sought work, was ultimately driven to steal, himself, by his desperate circumstance, even paying the price of humiliating himself before his son. But the one saving grace is that he was not arrested and formally charged as a criminal. "Tomorrow is another day" for them, something that most people can relate to, and which keeps them moving forward - even having experienced the knocks and bumps of today and yesterday.