The story takes place in a border town in western Texas, United States, on the border with Mexico. Patrol officers here pay attention to the border at all times every day, because illegal immigrants from Mexico are always in constant stream. Escada, a good-hearted Mexican immigrant, is a cowboy who finds a job on a farm in a small town and becomes close friends with the farm housekeeper Pete (Tommy Lee Jones). He entrusts Pete with one thing, If he dies in this place, be sure to let Pete return the body to his hometown.
Mike (Barry Pepper), a newly transferred policeman, lives with his wife in a shack by the railroad. Although the husband and wife are young, they are inseparable from each other, and their expressions are always numb due to their everyday life. Whenever Mike went to work, his bored wife would sit in the cafe and pass the time looking out the window. And Rachel, the proprietress of the coffee shop, is a woman who is unwilling to be lonely, dealing with her husband, the sheriff and Pete.
One day Mike was on duty at the border. When he was empty and bored, he was masturbating with a pornographic magazine. The sudden sound of gunfire left him at a loss. In a panic, he fired two shots blindly, hitting Escada in the distance. It turned out that Escada saw wolves haunt nearby when she was tending sheep, so he shot the wolves, but he passed away in a blink of an eye. Mike, who was in trouble, hurriedly buried Escada, hoping to hide it from the sky.
Soon, the police received a report of the discovery of the body. The sheriff who learned the truth neglected his duties and tried to protect Mike. Under his instigation, the unaccompanied Escada was buried in the homeless cemetery again. Pitt had long discovered that the police refused to file a case and had other secrets. Rachel, who heard the truth from the sheriff's mouth, told Pitt that it was Mike who killed.
Determined to avenge his friend, Pete breaks in at night, beats and kidnaps Mike. Pete takes Mike to the cemetery, asks him to dig up Escada's body, and then rush to Escada's residence. Pete simply disposes of the body and coerces Mike to embark on a journey to Mexico.
The police began to pursue Pete, and the sheriff took aim at Pete from the cliff, but did not fire. Pete continued on with the bodies of Mike and Escada, over sheer cliffs and across the rough desert. Pete always tormented Mike at every opportunity, even making him sleep next to a rotting corpse. Mike tries to escape, but is bitten by a venomous snake.
A Mexican led Pete and the injured Mike into the territory of Mexico. The one who healed Mike was the Mexican girl who was beaten by Mike at the border a few days ago. At Pete's request, the girl agreed to help, but let Mike go with him. The bridge of the nose was also discounted.
Pete finds the woman in Escada's photo, but she doesn't admit that Escada was her husband. After many twists and turns, Pete and Mike finally found the place that Escada had described, rebuilt the dilapidated house, and finally buried Escada's body in his beloved hometown.
Behind-the- scenes
news The border between the western Texas of the United States and Mexico has always been a land of troubles. A large river separates the United States and Mexico. Violent crimes and racial discrimination are also common in its vicinity. The most recent tragedy occurred in 1997, when 18-year-old American citizen Ességuier Hernandez lived by the Boundary River when four heavily armed U.S. Marines lay in ambush, tasked with interdicting traffickers Drug outlaws. They took the boy as a suspicious target and shot him 150 yards away on orders from their superiors. Although witnesses came forward to testify and the congressional investigation team launched an investigation, but in the end it was nothing, and no one was deservedly charged and punished. Tommy Lee Jones has been haunted by this injustice for many years and hopes to expose and accuse it in film language.
Quite a wonderful film, about a man's social responsibilities that he should take on. After committing a crime, he tried to escape, and the friend of the deceased acted as a judge-like character. In his way, the frivolous man learned to repent.
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