Who doesn’t have a fascination with the Wild West? I hate murder more than anything in the world but justice can be sweet… This movie (2007 remake) tells the story of an outlaw captured and taken to prison while his henchmen attempt a violent rescue. At once a villain and a hero, he is confronted by an Everyman, a broke rancher playing a mercenary guard for morality. It is a head-to-head, psychological chess match between two great actors, Russell Crowe as corrupted Ben Wade and Christian Bale as family man Dan Evans. Westerns are about Honor more than anything else, and both characters carry that burden in their own way, albeit with different ideas of right and wrong. “Every way of man is right in his own eyes”, says the outlaw. True, but couldn’t we at least all agree that murder, the one action that intentionally and permanently terminates another person’s life, is wrong? Can you imagine how beautiful life would be if people would stop making up exceptions to this fundamental rule?
“Be Good To Everyone” is the only law that matters.
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