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Thoughtful films and the modern viewer


I read a lot of comments on IMDb and I have to say I usually come away just shaking my head and not bothering to comment. But today is different because I genuinely feel that films like this are wasted on people brought up on the pre-chewed, semi-digested McD's cow crap Hollywood piles out these days because so many seem totally incapable of actually looking to understand something that isn't dually fed to them by drip and spoon and topped off with a big mallet just to ram home the simplest of points.

So I will say this veeeeeeereeeeeeeee slooooooooooooooooooowleeeeee for the hard of thinking - the end of this film was a metaphor for a lost and doomed America which was underlined by Terry Kath's brilliant Tell Me. It wasn't too long nor was it laughable (except to the very stupid of course), it took it's time to let the impact drip into the psyche of the viewer and the staging in Monument Valley where so many American heroes had gone before showed the films hero gunned down by a cowardly act of bloody violence - modern America in the raw.

Rant over.

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