That is correct. I rank this a 9/10, with its only fault being too Trumpy (sexism, racism, and stupid financial action... instead of fixing a bad systemic situation that makes everyone poor, just fix your own lot)...
But everything about this film is great, the score, the cinematography, the direction, the acting, the script, it's a *beep* western in cars! That poor horse trying to get out of that parking lot!
Damned fine movie, I hope it wins many awards. One of the only good movies I've seen this year.
***So I've seen 4 movies/wk in theatre for a 1/4 century, call me crazy?**
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twelveboar
8 years ago
I agree- I loved it and I thought it had a lot of depth and pathos, despite a superficially thin plot. I can see the reference to 'Trump's America', but I really think that's just unfortunate timing and his orange bloated head and dodgy rhetoric can be ignored: even beyond it being 'Banker's America', this film goes beyond that to play on the fading of myth of the frontier and redundant cowboy era, the death of the classic American machismo, sort of akin to the last half of The Wild Bunch.
And yeah, the cinematography was wonderful and the modern-western/rural thriller shtick hasn't been done this well since No Country...
My wife and I watched it on a whim and these kind of films don't really float her boat, but she loved it. Definitely deserves the praise.
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