Eastwood’s indifference and orderly style, the arrangement of the first and last clues, and the portrayal of characters from various perspectives are quite good. What is impressive is the fifteen-year-old girl Megan’s love for the priest. This film was shot in 1985, when Eastwood was fifty-five years old. This is a typical Oedipus-style love. The young girl's passion for the first time is wrapped in the admiration of the authority of the father's generation, as well as the slight mother-killing complex. The girl's erotic desire was mentioned in the darkness, exposed in the mountains and forests, and then waited for its withering as expected. Oedipus' lust is revenge for aggression, and she resents him for his refusal. The priest riding a white horse brought hope and death at the same time. The stagnant water before his arrival was reinfused with faith. Barrett’s speech by the bonfire has a legacy of free speech during the New England colonial period, “We are not here to make money, but to live. We work hard because our home is here. And if we are here for One thousand dollars and leaving home, how much money will it cost the next time you sell your soul?"
Early in the morning, the pale knight picked up the gun and killed everyone again, not only for justice, but also for the blood of grievances. This is the fascinating thing about Western films: it is never just for some high-sounding noble things, it is always full of sympathy for the free and romantic suffering of human emotions. This pain is tooth for tooth, eye for eye. After the gunpowder, the small city was all silent, and he rode away on a white horse, just as he came when he came, as he did in the Fistful of Dollars trilogy twenty years ago. However, his girl hadn't said goodbye to him, and when she hurried there, he had disappeared. She screamed loudly while running wildly, I love you, thank you, goodbye. The white frost and snow covered the icy mountains, and the mountains echoed at this time. He must have heard that death followed the pale horse and was taken away by the knight. The new hope he left behind about life was evidence of his love for her.
The film is so flat that it is boring, and the intention within the framework is not too new. However, the overall aesthetic style is quite advanced and thought-provoking. Time will make people forget too much thrilling and touching, too much fear, excitement and tears, but all those things that bypass reason and thinking, and are intuitively insights by the soul and broken heart will be remembered forever : For example, the Sad and Liangshan under the dusk, such as the small town in the rainstorm, such as the man riding a white horse.
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