Ben is a very cruel and ruthless wanted criminal. In a robbery at the beginning of the movie, the escort kidnapped Ben's subordinate Tommy. Ben shot Tommy in the neck without a word, and then shot the escort in the head with another shot. He didn't shoot Tommy directly, but let him live for a while and wait to die slowly (he had the strength to shoot both headshots), in his own words, (without finding the escort) if his accomplices were in danger, there would be Such an outcome. Ben's second-in-command, Charlie, clearly cared, but heeded Ben's words. As Ben met two women, from his facial expressions to his speech and behavior, he did not look like a vulgar and reckless gangster, but instead made both women have some good feelings. In the movie, Ben drew a total of three sketches, the first one is an eagle looking into the distance, the second one is a woman's naked back, and the third one is Dan sitting on the sofa with a gun. These details give me the impression that Ben is beginning to shift towards a desire for love and responsibility. But I don't know about Ben's past, nor exactly when the transition started.
And when did Dan start changing? From when the barn was burned, from when Hollander made it clear that he was going to take his land, from when he told his wife, "If I don't go, our family will have to pack up and get out, and God knows where else can we stay. I've had enough. , I'm sick of watching the kids starve, I'm sick of the look they look at me, and I'm sick of your indifference to me. I've been on one leg for three damn years, waiting for God Can help me, but he's deaf." The transformation is bit by bit. Even, maybe, Dan saw another kind of justice from Ben, killing Tucker who burned his barn, killing the escort who showed no mercy to the Indians, killing the Indians to save everyone, and several times. Didn't shoot Ben in the back.
Maybe Dan and Ben influenced each other. When Dan says he'll take Ben on the train himself, on the condition that Hollander never harass his land, that the water will flow through the farm again, and that he'll leave his wife and children $1,000. Ben understands that this man is not going to go back alive, he is explaining the funeral. And just now, the sheriff left because he was afraid of death, Dan chose to stay, and what was left was this cowardly and incompetent man (Ben felt that it was acting, and at the same time he was infected to a certain extent). This kind of sympathy for each other but unable to shake hands in the end is like the police and gangsters played by Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in "The Wire". Trapped in the station, Dan said he wasn't holding the lot because he was stubborn, but his young son had tuberculosis, and the doctor said he would die if there wasn't a dry environment, which probably reminded Ben of the woman in the bar, she said It was also the doctor who told her to go to a place with a drier climate and stop singing.
In the bar, Charlie tells Ben before leaving, don't hang around too long, the sheriff will be back soon. I will not go far, I will wait for you. Maybe that's one of the reasons why Ben kills Charlie at the end. Maybe Charlie's cruelty will be even worse than Ben, but he is more worried that his longing for love and responsibility will disappoint Charlie who admires and unconditionally listens to him. Maybe Charlie's words after killing Dan hurt Ben. The director's intentions are no longer guesswork. In the end Ben kills his comrade, then gets on the train and locks himself in an iron cage. This ending is very subtle, it is difficult to say good or bad, you can only experience and understand each other.
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