To understand this film, you must first understand the background of the era. Here it is sorted out for your reference.
"In the late nineteenth century, white Americans continued to migrate west, taking lands that used to belong to the Indians for themselves.
Others came from abroad, hoping to start a new life in the United States. All these settlers were able to live in the west. It is easy to acquire land. In
1862, the U.S. Congress passed the Homestead Act, which gave all U.S. citizens and aliens applying for citizenship the right to government land.
The law stipulated that each person could obtain sixty-five hectares of land .If you build a house on the land and farm it for five years, you can get the title of the land, and you only need to pay ten dollars to go through the formalities.
It is easy to get land on the Western Great Plains, but it is here to farm and work Not so easy. For those who have long lived in the mountains and forests of the East, the vast plains and grasslands of the West are very unfamiliar.”
Movie sketch:
Single Marry bee Cuddy from New York hopes to live in this desolate and barren plain Create your own happy life. She had a house, a few horses, a lot of land, and was very good at farming; the only thing she lacked was a husband. In such a brutal environment as the West, a woman cannot do without a man. The proactive Cuddy put down his dignity and proposed to the men in the town, but was coldly rejected.
At the same time, three women in the town went mad for various reasons (at first I wondered why they went mad, but when I understood the context at the time, I finally understood the pain of these women, who came from a place where the environment was good and could not Adapting to the harsh environment of the West, not to mention the machismo at the time, women were just vassals, completely without status, and it was difficult not to go crazy.)
Women are mad and unable to take care of their families and themselves. The local priest suggested that the three women be sent back to their hometowns. But it was a long way to go, and no man wanted to do it, only Cuddy stepped forward.
On the way, Cuddy rescued George Briggs, a homeless man who had been put to death for privately occupying other people's houses. G agreed.
During the escort journey, the three women were completely unable to take care of themselves and needed help with their bowel movements. Coupled with the bad weather and the interception by the Indians, the hardships are really unimaginable.
G for three hundred yuan, has not left halfway. When the last week of the trip was left, C once again showed G his vision for the future, and took the initiative to say to G: Why don't we get married? G did not answer.
That night, at Cuddy's pleas, George had sex with her.
The beautiful, strong and industrious Marry bee Cuddy has the courage and compassion that even men did not have at that time. It can be said that she is a good woman and a good wife that is hard to find, but no man is willing to marry her. Why in the end? Is she not gentle enough? Or is she too flat? Or is she being too proactive?
At that time, women were too active and self-assertive, which seemed to pose a threat to men. Otherwise, those men were too weak, but in their bones they thought they were superior to women.
For briggs' rejection, I personally think that he lacks self-confidence, and another point is his wandering personality: lazy and afraid of taking responsibility.
Frustrated, Marry silently ended his thirty-one-year-old life.
When I saw this, I couldn't believe that Marry was dead at all, so much so that I kept expecting a miracle in later episodes. The miracle didn't happen, maybe the miracle was that Marry met three crazy women and George Briggs, maybe the miracle was that she finally saw the truth: this was an age that didn't belong to her.
After Marry's death, Briggs found the money and planned to walk away, but three women followed him. Perhaps it was his conscience that he took over the delivery task and sent the women back to his hometown smoothly. On the way, they went to a hotel hungry for food and rest, but they were ruthlessly rejected by this group of selfish merchants who called themselves nobles.
Briggs and three mad women have traveled long distances. They have not eaten for three days. They are extremely exhausted physically and mentally. It can be said that they are in danger. Suddenly, a luxurious hotel appears on the vast plain, and the room is decorated with exquisite food and wine. All Briggs asked for was food and a bathtub, but the aristocratic homeowner didn't care about the lives of others at all. All he thought about was his own business and the upcoming patron. At Briggs' repeated pleas he reluctantly looked inside the carriage. After seeing the woman in the carriage, Briggs was immediately driven out with a shotgun threat. An angry Briggs cursed and drove away, turning back at night and setting the hotel on fire.
This is an interesting contrast, Briggs begging for food and a bathtub for the three women from the businessman, just as Marry proposed to him, begging for the hope of living. Is the merchant's refusal any different from the Briggs' refusal? The same is to cut off the beggar's way of life. No wonder Briggs turned back and set fire to the hotel and the merchants inside. Is this also his ruthless anger towards himself?
After completing the task, Briggs took a good rest, dressed himself up, went to the pub to drink, and gambled, but no matter what he did, he couldn't dispel the loss in his heart. It was at this moment that he really felt what an incredible woman Mary was.
Briggs made a wooden tablet for Marry, intending to take it to Marry's grave. When crossing the river, he sang and danced drunkenly again, and everyone beat the music together. The scene looked very lively and everyone was very happy. But we know how sad Briggs is, and we can even feel that sadness surrounding us with an invisible shock.
My heart is broken and my tears can't stop, for this incredible woman, for the thirty-one-year-old life she had to end, for this belated awakening, this belated love and sadness. And this is the most brilliant part of the film, Mary's death, shaking the hearts of the audience, Briigs singing and dancing behavior to push the emotional climax of the film.
At the end of the film, an unknown person on the ferry inadvertently kicked Marry's tombstone into the river, and the tombstone floated away.
All stories, all movies are like tombstones in the water, disappearing with time. But really good stories and really good movies will stay, stay in the world, stay in your heart and mine. "The Homesman" is one of them.
Finish.
It is said that the film will not be released and will be released on DVD. How strange that good movies don't sell.
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