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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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs quotes

  • Prospector (segment "All Gold Canyon"): You measly skunk! You shot me in the back!

    [sobbing as he checks the wound]

    Prospector (segment "All Gold Canyon"): It went clean through! He didn't hit nothing important! He didn't hit nothing *important*! Nothing important! Just guts is all you had!

  • Posse #1 (segment "Near Algodones"): [the Cowboy is about to get hanged] Can I have your horse?

    Posse #2 (segment "Near Algodones"): No, me.

    Posse Leader (segment "Near Algodones"): You wanna give one of these boys your horse? Save scrapping over it after you pass?

    Cowboy (segment "Near Algodones"): I don't want any of them to have it.

    Posse #1 (segment "Near Algodones"): You selfish bastard.