The film is based on the western theme of the late American Civil War. It tells the story of two men with different personalities, the emotional estrangement between father and son, the burning, killing, looting, bumping and displacement of the thieves in the west, and the desire to live a comfortable life of ordinary people. The main line runs through the whole film, and the contradictions are clear, making the original simple and poor film full of color, wonderful and constantly memorable.
The father Dan, played by Christian Bale, is a small person living at the bottom of the society. As a soldier in the north, his leg was accidentally injured by his own people while retreating in the Civil War. In front of his eldest son who is in adolescence, he has no past to show off. In front of his wife, he is a loser, unable to provide his family with the most basic food and clothing. The only thing he's proud of is that he's a good father in front of his younger son, and that's what keeps him going.
Russell Crowe plays the robber Ben Wade of the West, a thief who longs to return to a comfortable and ordinary life, and his reputation can be said to be "notorious". Burning, killing and looting seems to be only a small part of his life, his personal charm is from his casual pencil sketches and dialogues with women, all of which make people feel that he is a charming person, as if he and the wanted Ben Wade is not alone at all.
Charlie Prince played by Dallas Roberts, as Ben Wade's loyal subordinate, his performance seems to have a "broken back" tendency, and the adoration and loyalty of the boss is sharp and delicate. Once again to highlight the personal charm of Ben Wade.
For his livelihood, for his own dignity, for his sons, for his wife, Dan decided to escort robber Ben Wade to the train that passed through Yuma at 3:10. Along the way, Ben kept trying to tempt Dan with money, hoping that he would take the money and go home without making fearless sacrifices, but Dan was unmoved. The two men have so many different personalities and experiences that they almost became friends in the end. In the end, Ben helped Dan to fulfill his wish and jumped on the train himself. Ben, who already felt like he had become a good person, smiled and faced Dan, who had been with him all the way through difficulties and dangers. Ben's subordinate Charlie was behind Dan. kill him. Suddenly Ben returned to reality, and all illusions were shattered. In fact, he was not the good person he had always wanted to become, but the boss of the robbery gang, the bad guy. The huge gap made Ben hate his subordinates and what he had done. Dirty deeds, the killer killed all his men one by one, and finally returned to the train bound for Yuma. At the end of the film, like most American movies, the design of suspense is worth aftertaste. After the train starts, Ben whistles, causing his horse to follow the train and disappear in front of the camera.
Typical western songs throughout the movie, and songs that Ben learned from Tucker, they
're gonna hang me in the morning
Before the night is done They
're gonna hang me in the morning
I'll never see the sun
What Ben Wade wanted to hang was his former self, the inhuman self who destroyed countless families. He met Dan, as if he had also been redeemed, but in the end, the illusion was shattered, and the ben wade who returned to reality was still the original him, because as Dan's eldest son said, you're not all bad.
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