When the four people stood up and fought against Huanglong, the only time the whole film appeared to be righteous, the violence in the body finally found a peaceful place. In the movie, Parker looked back and watched the children on the roadside playing a game of ants devouring scorpions. The look between his brows was full of pain. The old values have been replaced by animal violence. Wherever the four of them went on their way to escape, there were only numb people and barren land. The violence had reached the level that Tuqong daggers saw them. The innocent child, the sad guitar, renders a dead end. It also reveals the desert behind the violence.
From violent bank robbery, violent confrontation with bounty hunters, to violent capture of arms, violence is spreading, and the living environment of violence is getting worse and worse. When violence is spread to Mexican warlord camps in the film, only brutality and greed are left. They abandon their companions while fleeing, and cooperate with the generals in order to reward them. They rely on violence all the way, and violence flows across the border to converge into a greater war and massacre. The German military adviser shouted that the machine gun needs a tripod. Violence is out of law, out of control, and what is left is ugliness and ignorance. On the other side, the bounty hunter shot civilians and soldiers, busy stripping off the boots of the dead, and Thornton, who was sympathetic to Parker, looked at them in disgust.
The four witnessed the general cutting the Mexican boy's throat to his face and laughed wildly at them. Thoroughly trampling on and insulting the remaining value, what are the four of them thinking, wanting to kill others by themselves, wanting to leave their companions and get away, thinking that they can't bear it. The general slaughtered naked, stripped off the last veil, and demonstrated the violent madness. At this time, the four only fought to the death. The last violence was used to affirm the value of the past and complete a decent funeral for violence.
This is a masterpiece of western film, traditional style, the film was shot in 1969, but there is no new generation of counter-culture and anti-hero actors. I use the old Hollywood star William Hutton, he is not like a gangster, but has the manner of a veteran gentleman. Sunset and yellow sand, there is no anti-tradition of the dragon and tiger bully, only the tragic and majestic remembrance of the old western myths. The violence itself is also lyrical.
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