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In this era when Western films have inevitably faded out of the audience's vision, Sean may become more and more a symbol of the Western hero and the Western world who will never return. I accidentally saw a "Negotiation Expert" a few days ago. The two negotiators in the film, Danny and Chris, got involved in a Western movie when they first met. There was a fierce argument against whether Sean fell in the last shot. In fact, no matter whether Sean falls or not, he is always gone, and the Western era that belonged to the cowboys and gunners is gone forever. In these senses, "The Wilderness" is an early elegy western film. Strangers from the wilderness live in a quiet valley, and the family of happy farmer Starrets lives. This day, the boy Joey was aiming at a deer with a bullet-free rifle by the stream in front of the door. From a distance, a stranger on horseback came... It sounds like a fairy tale, but this is from "The Wilderness" beginning. Joe Starrett and his wife, like other homesteaders, migrated to this valley, built houses in areas with lush vegetation, plowed out farmland, built fences, and built homes. However, the earlier pioneer Laker regarded the immigration of homesteaders as an infringement on his territory that he did not have and did not need legal recognition. He believed that these people had invaded his pasture. Like any land owner, he Vowed to drive the homesteader out of the canyon. At this time, Sean appeared as a wandering gunman. He helped Joe to get rid of the domineering Rick, so he was welcomed by the host couple and the young Joey. Sean took off his cowboy outfit and started farm work. Under the coercion and lure of Lake, some farmers plan to leave here. But Joe is unwilling to give up the home he built. He persuaded everyone to unite and taught Lake and his men severely in the tavern with Sean. Annoyed into rage Drake invited the well-known killer Wilson. Wilson killed the impulsive Torre at the market and threatened to wait for Joe to solve it in the tavern. Sean had to knock Joe stunned, went to the tavern instead of Joe, and killed Lake and Wilson. Finally, injured Sean chose to leave, leaving only the boy Joey calling out to the wilderness: "Come back, Sean!" The departure of the West had a thousand spectators, and there was also a thousand Sean. We can think that Sean had a delicate relationship with the farmer's wife Maria, so he chose to stay to help. He went into the tiger's den alone for Maria, and finally found that he was stuck in this kind of feeling and couldn't help himself, and had to choose to leave. Indeed, the relationship between Sean and the hostess is beyond the scope of general friendship, and even the host himself has discovered this problem. When he decided to go to the tavern for a duel, he said to his wife: "Even if I have an accident, someone will take care of you." This This feeling is more straightforward in Eastwood's remake of "The Pale Knight". But the generation of this kind of feeling is also gradual, and Shaun’s first glimpse of the mistress may only be an instinctive nostalgia for a stable life and a desire for home. And Sean first used to show that the act of staying was to help Farmer Joe cut the stump. This is a purely male friendship, based on labor, so the reason for Sean's stay may not be purely out of feelings for the hostess. Or we can understand it as the pursuit of social identity. Only Sean, whose name did not say his surname, implied the lack of social identity, and the enthusiasm of the farmers' family and their happy life gave him a desire to regain his social identity. So he took off the denim, which was a symbol of homelessness, and put on a farmer's costume. It's moving so much that Sean has to sacrifice the hard-won social identity in the end. In any case, Shaun’s choice actually implies that the development of the west will eventually lead to civilization, agriculture and settlement. It belongs to the lifestyle of cowboys, gunners, and grazing. Although it was once so brilliant, it finally had to decline regrettably. Sean said to Lake: ——Your time has passed——My time? Where is your time, gunman? ——The difference between us is that I realize this. In fact, we can't tell who is right or wrong between Lake and the farmer. Lake is a typical example of the early western pioneers. When they were young, they fought Indians and bandits. Their cattle were slaughtered and looted, and their partners bleed and fell. They finally opened up this land and made it safe. , Suitable for people to live in, they opened up vast pastures. But the new pioneers erected fences in their borderless pastures, reclaimed farmland, and cut off the pasture’s water source for irrigation. They stole the fruits of the pioneers' labor without sacrificing. Of course, this piece of land cannot only belong to the cowboys who graze, but it is also obviously not belong to the unearned people. Whose land is this can only be spoken by force. Unfortunately, the trend of the times is irreversible after all. Farming and settlement will eventually replace the cowboy's life. When Sean saw this, he stood on the side of the farmers, hoping to integrate into their lives. He said to the boy Joey: The era of killing is over, time cannot go back. However, when he discovered that all of this had to be resolved with his gun in the end, because Lake tried to use force to deprive the farmers of the fruits of their labor, Sean found that he couldn't calmly integrate into this life in the end. He said: I tried to change my life, but it didn't suit me. So Sean, who picked up the gun again, had to choose to leave, because although he protected his farming life, he became a gunman again. After all, he was The enemy of farming cannot make this wilderness a paradise without guns. He can only leave. So we can understand the departure of Sean as the departure of the West. The West will not be able to integrate into modernity and civilization in the end, and can only stubbornly choose to go away sadly. Western Wonderful Flower This is a rare and slow-paced work in Western films. The narrative is slow and lyrical, but symbolic and cryptic, with deep meaning, and quite intriguing. This is also the charm of the movie that has attracted people to debate until now. Sean's silent love is embarrassing. As a man, is there a deeper love than silence? Apart from silence, what other qualities are more worthy of boasting? Piao Ran appeared and finally left Piao Ran and once became a typical image of a Western hero. It is worth mentioning that Clint Eastwood made a movie called "The Pale Knight" in 1985. If you watch "The Pale Knight" first, it is indeed a masterpiece, but if you have read "The Wilderness", you will understand that the remake will never be better than the original. Moreover, "The Pale Knight" is too straightforward about love, hate, good and evil, and it is not as good as "The Wilderness". "The Wilderness" is such an exotic flower, it is as rough and strong as a cactus, but as fragrant and fragrant as a rose. It belongs not only to the conservative and stubborn rightist nostalgia, but also to the gentle and hypocritical literary youth.
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