A terrifying western fable

Madaline 2022-03-31 09:01:03

"The ballad of Buster Scruggs" six seemingly absurd but unrealistically thought-provoking western fables The Coen brothers' stern and sharp black humor.

1. When you are proud, don’t forget: there is always someone who is better than you, has a faster gun, and has a better mentality;

2. If you escape the first day of the new year, you can't escape the fifteenth: if you don't atone for your own mistakes, you have to pay for the evil of others;

3. A downcast phoenix is ​​not as good as a chicken: when survival is a problem, feelings can only be a burden;

4. It’s not that the time is not reported: when you are angry that your efforts are being taken by others, do you forget that you are also a thief of nature;

5. Accidental or inevitable: if she didn't go for the puppy she wouldn't leave the team alone, if he hit the puppy she wouldn't go for the puppy, or if she didn't start the trip with her brother... it seems A series of accidents became inevitable because of her kindness and cowardice;

6. The authorities are obsessed with the "lightness" of the bystanders: I thought it was reading someone else's story, but found that it was ourselves, and the mood suddenly changed from light to heavy, everyone can't escape their fate, time will not stop, we can only bite the bullet go down.

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  • Kareem 2021-12-02 08:01:26

    The third story is too cruel.

  • Kristin 2022-03-27 09:01:06

    West and death, absurdity and sadness, all the way from amazing to distracted, the Coen brothers have always had good sentences and bad chapters in recent years. The first three stories are so good that I will probably remember them for a long time.

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs quotes

  • Buster Scruggs (segment "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"): [Buster blows off the fingers of the right hand of Curly Joe's brother, who screams and clumsily tries to draw with his left] Whoa! Looks like when they made this fella, they forgot to put in the quit. Five fingers at a bullet a piece...

    [turns to the camera, grinning]

    Buster Scruggs (segment "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"): I ain't got but the one bullet left. Sure hope I don't miss!

    [turning his back to Curly Joe's brother, he points the gun backwards and studies his target on a hand mirror]

    Buster Scruggs (segment "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"): Let me see here. His heart would be on the left, but in the mirror it'd be on the right... of course, we is both facing the same way and the gun is upside down, so... Yeah, best not play it too fancy.

    [he shoots and Curly Joe's brother collapses to the ground, dead]

    Buster Scruggs (segment "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"): Cause for reflection!

  • Buster Scruggs (segment "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"): [after killing Curly Joe by kicking a table and making him shoot himself with his own gun] I'm not a devious man by nature... but when you're unarmed, your tactics might gonna be downright Archimedean.