Short Review: "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"

Loyce 2022-04-19 09:01:53

See also the director of the Coen brothers, and see the western theme that the brothers love.

On the vast expanse of the dusty western part of the United States, under the title of a romantic and comfortable movie, fable-like stories are staged one after another.

Eagerness is mixed with coolness, joy mixed with sadness, brutality mixed with philosophical thinking...

I like the story of the gold digger the most, the rhythm is slow but very chewy. The surface is still the flat narrative style of the Coen Brothers' golden signature, and the inside uses rich, delicate and restless lens language to gather tension, and then toss it in the air like a cowboy dancing a whip, pulling out a crackling accident or reversal...

The six short stories are strung together into a poem that is broken by the sound of horses' hooves.

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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs quotes

  • Buster Scruggs (segment "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"): I'd like me a splash of whiskey to wash the trail dust off my gullet and keep my singing voice in fettle.

    Cantina Bartender (segment "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"): Whiskey's illegal. This is a dry country.

    Buster Scruggs (segment "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"): [points to the other customers] Well, what are they drinking?

    Cantina Bartender (segment "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"): ...whiskey. They's outlaws.

  • Englishman (segment "The Mortal Remains"): They're so easily taken when they are distracted, people are. So I'm the distractor, with a little story, a little conversation, a song, a sparkle... and Clarence does the thumping while their attention is on me.

    Irishman (segment "The Mortal Remains"): He is very good, this one. You should see him.

    Englishman (segment "The Mortal Remains"): No, *he* is good!

    Irishman (segment "The Mortal Remains"): [shrugs] I *can* thump.