Four and a half stars

Allan 2022-04-23 07:02:00

Six short stories: full of human thinking, there is no right or wrong, bad people do not necessarily face punishment, good people do not necessarily live long. In real life, I often face this kind of thing, and sometimes the retribution is unhappy, and sometimes the sky has no eyes.

This movie is most commendable for not forcing the main theme as usual. Through accidents, people's choices in various situations determine the direction of events. Some of them are indeed immoral, but whether life makes them choose this way or their nature is what the audience interprets.

There is an old saying: the ones who build bridges and pave the way are blind, and the ones who murder and set fire are many.

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  • Nolan 2022-03-27 09:01:06

    Favorite bedtime story. Looking forward to the brothers coming back to the top.

  • Deondre 2022-03-27 09:01:06

    West and death, absurdity and sadness, all the way from amazing to distracted, the Coen brothers have always had good sentences and bad chapters in recent years. The first three stories are so good that I will probably remember them for a long time.

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs quotes

  • 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.

  • Buster Scruggs (segment "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"): Misanthrope? I don't hate my fellow man, even when he's tiresome and surly and tries to cheat at poker. I figure that's just a human material, and him that finds in it cause for anger and dismay is just a fool for expecting better.