Although it has the shell of a film noir, it can be seen as a feminist film in essence, a history of women's struggle, which is enough to compare with Naruse Mikio's "Women Walking Up the Stairs" - all women stand on their own. The story of opening a restaurant and starting his own business - even Crawford's performance in this film is more and more prominent than Gao Xiuzi, taking the initiative to divorce, become independent, find a job as a waiter, earn money to take care of two daughters, and even Pay for your lover...
From Joan Crawford's body and facial features can also be analyzed, her famous broad shoulders, large skeleton, and strong and even masculine face, make him more suitable for some strong woman-style roles. "Desert Stranger" is also Joan Crawford's first female Western in history, the story of two women's duel, and the title "Johnny Guitar", the returning legendary gunslinger character, has become an auxiliary , Suspended supporting role
From another point of view, it is also a perverted "National Witness"-style story, switching from father's love to mother's love, the same daughter kills, and the father/mother try to cover up the false report, but they can't hide it, and they think they are the murderer... In order to hope that her daughter would go home, she even married a man she no longer loved, and sold one-third of her company's shares as a price... But her daughter betrayed her and had incest with her stepfather.
From this perspective, one can also think of Ray's "Above Life", which is all about men, sons/daughters, the destruction of independent women by a family
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