this is our west, and i wish they'd leave us alone!

i've been reading a book about the donner party (michael wallis's the best land under heaven, which is super good!) and this was lowkey the best companion piece. westward expansion and manifest destiny and capitalist accomplishment comes hand in hand with white supremacy and murder and genocide. really interesting to see how this deals with all of that in what is essentially a one-act play

this is our west, and i wish they'd leave us alone!

i've been reading a book about the donner party (michael wallis's the best land under heaven, which is super good!) and this was lowkey the best companion piece. westward expansion and manifest destiny and capitalist accomplishment comes hand in hand with white supremacy and murder and genocide. really interesting to see how this deals with all of that in what is essentially a one-act play

meu deusssss suspense no faroeste? que combinação maravilhosa, eu fico obcecada por thrillers que você vai descobrindo aos poucos o que tá acontecendo e esse em especial é algo praticamente agonizante, porque sao TODOS contra o protagonista, a cidade inteira odeia o fato de ele simplesmente existir, e nem mesmo o público sabe o porquê. o legal é que quando tudo se transforma pra virar o jogo a favor do macreedy, a gente enfim percebe a razão de ele estar na cidade, uma cidade que acha que pode viver na impunidade.

meu deusssss suspense no faroeste? que combinação maravilhosa, eu fico obcecada por thrillers que você vai descobrindo aos poucos o que tá acontecendo e esse em especial é algo praticamente agonizante, porque sao TODOS contra o protagonista, a cidade inteira odeia o fato de ele simplesmente existir, e nem mesmo o público sabe o porquê. o legal é que quando tudo se transforma pra virar o jogo a favor do macreedy, a gente enfim percebe a razão de ele estar na cidade, uma cidade que acha que pode viver na impunidade.

There is a lot to be said about the beautiful way it's shot and the themes of post-WWII feeling around America, especially, in it's more rural parts but what intrigued me the most is how just one good man among a rotten bunch can inspire a change that turns the tides and creates hope for a better, less fearful world.

There is a lot to be said about the beautiful way it's shot and the themes of post-WWII feeling around America, especially, in it's more rural parts but what intrigued me the most is how just one good man among a rotten bunch can inspire a change that turns the tides and creates hope for a better, less fearful world.

Lean, mean neo-Western pressure cooker that feels and plays like a '90s point-and-click adventure game, where lone drifter Spencer Tracy arrives by train in small dusty Black Rock in the months after WW2 had ended, in search of a Japanese man named Komoko. The local townsfolk, led by Robert Ryan, are suspicious of this newcomer — no one's been through Black Rock in years — and are hesitant to give answers... as if they're hiding something. Maybe they are? I guess you gotta watch to find out. What I can say is... this rocks. HARD.

Lean, mean neo-Western pressure cooker that feels and plays like a '90s point-and-click adventure game, where lone drifter Spencer Tracy arrives by train in small dusty Black Rock in the months after WW2 had ended, in search of a Japanese man named Komoko. The local townsfolk, led by Robert Ryan, are suspicious of this newcomer — no one's been through Black Rock in years — and are hesitant to give answers... as if they're hiding something. Maybe they are? I guess you gotta watch to find out. What I can say is... this rocks. HARD.

Far more beautiful and cinematic than I was expecting for such a movie and the tension is palpable from the very start. Some great performances from the leads. I do feel the fight scene with Ernie is a misstep. Obviously it's laughably staged and in the end breaks all the immersion and the tension that was building before hand and we struggle to ever build that back again before the credits roll. Before that moment everything seemed so dangerous and inevitable.

Far more beautiful and cinematic than I was expecting for such a movie and the tension is palpable from the very start. Some great performances from the leads. I do feel the fight scene with Ernie is a misstep. Obviously it's laughably staged and in the end breaks all the immersion and the tension that was building before hand and we struggle to ever build that back again before the credits roll. Before that moment everything seemed so dangerous and inevitable.