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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Extended Reading
  • Rylee 2022-03-25 09:01:08

    A collection of western episodes with different flavors, the story is not as interesting as an episode of "Wonderful Story of the World", the heroic and rambunctious men of the western hero are gone, and the whole screen only sees the absurd and humorous little family. Self-defeating, even the Coen brothers are no exception. The management should be too economical, and the finished product can only be regarded as an exercise work at best.

  • Gregory 2022-03-24 09:01:49

    5 > 3 > 6 > 1 > 4 > 2, probably less than half of the stories were written seriously this time, so "lazy" but still fascinated, it can be seen that most of the writers and movies are the same. How incompetent and boring.

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs quotes

  • Buster Scruggs (segment "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"): [Buster blows off the fingers of the right hand of Curly Joe's brother, who screams and clumsily tries to draw with his left] Whoa! Looks like when they made this fella, they forgot to put in the quit. Five fingers at a bullet a piece...

    [turns to the camera, grinning]

    Buster Scruggs (segment "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"): I ain't got but the one bullet left. Sure hope I don't miss!

    [turning his back to Curly Joe's brother, he points the gun backwards and studies his target on a hand mirror]

    Buster Scruggs (segment "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"): Let me see here. His heart would be on the left, but in the mirror it'd be on the right... of course, we is both facing the same way and the gun is upside down, so... Yeah, best not play it too fancy.

    [he shoots and Curly Joe's brother collapses to the ground, dead]

    Buster Scruggs (segment "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"): Cause for reflection!

  • Buster Scruggs (segment "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"): [after killing Curly Joe by kicking a table and making him shoot himself with his own gun] I'm not a devious man by nature... but when you're unarmed, your tactics might gonna be downright Archimedean.