The film is made up of six different American West stories, woven together by the only theme of death. The first story is actually doomed to death the moment you pick up the gun, it's just a matter of time. In the end, Saint Saba sang with the black cowboy in the process of flying to heaven. Death itself is a tragedy, which is regrettable, but it became very light in the hands of the Coen brothers. The main body of the second story is very similar to the first one. The male protagonist escaped from the tiger's den and entered the wolf's den, and finally died. God is fair, no one can walk away after a gunshot.
In the third story, a boy without limbs died, and the boy made a living by telling poetry with his mouth. However, because of the unchanging story, people gradually lost interest, and the performance went from being overcrowded at the beginning to not even a row of people sitting in the back. The income naturally also began to decrease, and was finally replaced by a calculating chicken, and the boy died of his own stagnation. In the fourth story, a cowboy whose mantis was catching cicadas died. The cowboy waited patiently for the old man to find the gold mine and dig for gold. The cowboy was counter-killed because he was careless, so he could shoot the old man directly after digging out the gold mine, or put a few more shots on him. Don't underestimate your opponent, even an old man.
The fifth story is that the deceased is a peaceful woman. This story looks like a mixed bag. He is about to marry the boy who leads the team, and some people have also reminded the heroine not to leave the team too far, stubborn, and words fall on deaf ears. The death of the person in the previous story is without collateral damage. The most interesting thing about this story is that the open ending brought about by the death of the person makes the audience reverie. Are the two leaders breaking up? Or trust each other?
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