abandoned

Macey 2022-10-08 00:18:46

"Abandoned" is a low-budget western film, but it was made to a high standard. Actors Kiefer and Donald Sutherland are a real father and son in real life, and they also play father and son with sincerity in the play. , The feelings are strong, which makes the audience feel convinced. One is over 80 and the other is over 50. The father and son are deeply in love, but their emotions are still fragile. The knots in their hearts have not been resolved. There is a misunderstanding, but both sides have love in their hearts, and cuteness is also a kind of bondage, because love makes people afraid and makes people choose to escape from the truth. The story is simple. The male protagonist, Kiefer, went abroad to participate in the war. After the war, he did not return home for ten years and returned to his hometown. His mother had passed away. The father was indifferent, the relationship was cold, the father was a priest, and Kiefer was a gunman, killed people, and had a bad reputation. The two go against each other, Kiefer does not believe in God, because the world is unfair, and his father believes in God, because only God can save. Back in his hometown and town, bullies are rampant, and capitalists, in the name of reclaiming land, do all kinds of evil, killing people and shooting guns, evil everywhere. Kiefer has already washed his face, and he doesn't want to kill anymore. He doesn't want the bully to make things difficult for him. He stabbed Kiefer's father again, which caused a counterattack. The bullies were killed by the gun one by one. A typical western movie, the three views are correct, the father and son have delicate emotions, from estrangement to closeness, they use mutual values ​​and beliefs, the son goes to the church to pray, the father and son complete the mining of the vegetable garden together, the repentance of sin and punishment, they ushered in emotion of the warm sun. The core of Western films is to leave. Heroes and heroes are the same, they can never belong to one place, and they are destined to drift, and they will be destined to have a heavy responsibility to save the people.

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Forsaken quotes

  • Mary-Alice Watson: I want you off my land.

    James McCurdy: And you have every right to do so... for another... 32 hours and 18 minutes.

    Mary-Alice Watson: And if we're still here?

    James McCurdy: Then I'd start looking for a black dress.

  • John Henry Clayton: This ain't gonna end, Pa, till someone ends it.

    Rev. Clayton: Not you. It doesn't have to be you.

    John Henry Clayton: It's time I did something right in my life. This is what I know how to do.