The film tells the story of two brothers robbing a bank. After many robberies, the wily Texas police intervened in the investigation, and a battle between the police and the bandits began. The story is told in two clues. One is the two brothers who robbed the bank in order to survive the financial difficulties of the family, and the other is how a pair of mounted police officers hunted down the two brothers.
The film opens with the first robbery of two brothers with very different personalities, revealing their identities as criminals, and then the brothers' dialogue on the farm shows the two brothers' feelings for their mother and the farm. The story then completes by explaining the reason for the bank robbery, which is that the mother was deceived by the credit bank and discovered that the farm had a lot of oil wealth that could greatly improve the family's life.
With the appearance of various characters, the atmosphere of the western is more and more intense. Whether it’s criminals or police officers, cowboys driving cattle on horseback, and locals who help with their knives at any time, they all show the personality of western cowboys. They carry guns with them. truth. In the face of provocation and robbery, the unhesitating punch and gun draw are the brave, combative and passionate characters of the western people.
During the bank robbery, we saw a lot of conflicts and contradictions between the two brothers, but in order to redeem the farm and improve the life of the younger brother's family in the future, the two of them still did not turn back. This also shows the struggle of little people in the real society. At the end, the younger brother said to the sheriff, "But my son can't be poor anymore, never again" tragically and decisively. There will always be some bad people in society who commit crimes and it's their fault, but when some good people start to commit crimes, it must be something wrong with the society itself, only in the formal legal system of the society, they can't survive or get justice, crime is the only way to solve the problem.
The old sheriff's sentence is even more touching, "This will be a heart disease that will follow you for the rest of your life, but you are not alone, and this is also my heart disease." Although the male protagonist is at large, he cannot deny his past crimes; and the sheriff cannot It is also a regret in life to bring the criminal to justice and unable to comfort his partner. In the end, the old sheriff and the criminal's younger brother reached a reconciliation, unraveling the legal knot and fulfilling each other in the way of cowboys.
The western spirit is hot and warm. My brother helped my younger brother rob a bank just because: "Because you opened your mouth to me." There is no nonsense, just because I am willing to go through fire and water for you.
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