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Cullen 2022-04-21 09:01:21

When the escort team was worried about getting Vader to the train in Yuma, when Evans was wondering if he could set a good example for his children, when Charlie worried about the comfort of the boss, Vader was always on the lookout. He looked at everyone with a smile, as if he was not a prisoner in prison, but a spokesman for God, as the name of his pistol "Hand of God". No fear of death, and no fear of the future.

In a crowded station, for three days, he obediently read a Bible from the front cover to the back cover, without waiting for the promise to be fulfilled. Under the influence of this environment, the sacred proverbs came to him when he opened his mouth. The ridicule of the so-called proverbs is indeed a truth when it comes to speaking, but it is a life in turn.

Therefore, when ordinary people are sitting around the dining table and praying "thank you for your love and gifts", he can naturally use God's words to ridicule the sheriff who killed dozens of people, mocking the sheriff's self-righteousness correct -

What a man does is right in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the heart. Proverbs 21.

It is also because of the complex environment that when God also became the object of Vader's ridicule, he no longer had a yardstick in his heart other than his own knot. Above the boundless west, he understands people's hearts, knows the weight of his team, and holds the hand of God. Yes, in my opinion, from beginning to end, in this escorted journey, he is not. Prisoner, and more of a bystander, watching a flock of drowning chicks struggle.

However, behind his freedom lies his shackles, and his shackles lie with his parents. He grew up in an environment of betrayal. A person who can recite the Bible naturally understands the meaning of the Bible, but he has not experienced it and has not owned it. Therefore, when he saw a father who was cowardly but willing to establish himself for the sake of his children, he thought of his childhood.

So he decided to help fulfill his wish and act on the spot.

The decision was in his character as if he had killed the sheriff he had always been sympathetic to, blew up a train full of gold diggers, or chanted "they'll hang me in the morning" in a hotel. On the one hand, it is indifferent to everything, and on the other hand, it is a kind of expectation for an ideal family.

And the killing of his team in the end was not a betrayal of brotherhood. After all, there are no brothers in the west, all relying on authority and institutional control, and when he chose to go to the train station, he gave up that authority and betrayal himself. That system, he couldn't control his team.

Of course, on the other hand, he never cares about all the rules of the world, whether it is the god who raises his head or the brother who has always maintained it.

At the end of the film, he got on the train, in order to fulfill a father's last wish, and to make up for his own shortcomings, just like the countless journeys before or after, he is one step closer to God.

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3:10 to Yuma quotes

  • Charlie Prince: For a one-leg rancher... he's one tough son of a bitch.

  • [last lines]

    William Evans: Pa.

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