In the traditional impression, what kind of movie is a Western, happy revenge, the law of the jungle, chivalry and so on. Westerns have added a new genre to American films, although it is a form of whitewashing, but for this film type, we can find similarities according to domestic martial arts films, such as chivalry and righteousness, quick revenge, etc., these are the characteristics of domestic martial arts films. If you look at it this way, American Westerns are basically equivalent to the Americanization of martial arts films. However, Westerns only appeared in a specific historical stage, and then began to decline, and why they declined, the reason may be in the film recommended to you today.
"Desert Monster" is an anti-western Western, a woman who opens a bar alone in the desert, and the reason why she opens a bar here is that when the train line passes here, she can have her own town. The woman carefully planned this grand blueprint, but the sky did not go as expected. Women have been harassed more than once by the police of nearby towns, and their purpose is simple, women's expectations conflict with them, they do not want the town to be replaced by another town, let alone the large number of people that come with the arrival of the train. As a result, the woman's vision has been bumpy.
The woman summoned her ex-boyfriend, who is a lone killer, and the marksmanship is superb, with the pressure of the ex-boyfriend, the woman feels that she has a weapon to take advantage of. However, the good times did not last long, and the woman's group of friends was chased and killed by the police in the town because of the half-way robbery, and later had to obtain the woman's asylum. Therefore, people in the town who hate women very much hate women even more. The conspiracy unfolded, and the locks on the gallows slowly tightened.
The woman was framed, the hard-working bar was burned, fortunately there was an ex-boyfriend, otherwise the woman would also drive the crane west, the police chased the woman to a mine, the conflict was on the verge, did the ex-boyfriend want to kill? How a woman will pull away, in order to avoid spoilers, do not answer in advance, this question is left to you.
Why is "Desert Monster" an anti-Western? The simple reason is that the mundane things we see from Westerns are being broken step by step. The original Westerns were fought between men, but the protagonists in this film are two women, a woman who represents the pioneering spirit, and she faces a woman who pursues conservatism. The fight between the two women speaks volumes, and at this time, whether it is the policeman in the town or the woman's ex-boyfriend, they are all deputies.
Even the woman's ex-boyfriend, although he is a strong man with superb marksmanship, is shaped into a powerful and brainless person, behind which is a woman who controls everything, but has a child's love, and it is a man who is emotionally impulsive. The men on the police side are generally indecisive, while the villain women hold the power of life and death, etc., which are different from previous Westerns.
Besides, the woman's thief friend, the youngest burglar at the beginning of the muscles towards the woman to show that he is a man, but when the real crisis requires him to stand up as a man and sacrifice, he begins to shrink, which is not how men must be in traditional Westerns, women must be dependents. At this time, we see the difference.
Another thief who went out to duel with the woman's ex-boyfriend, and even unloaded his own weapon, became the one who betrayed his friend at the last moment. Such a person at first seemed to obey the rules of the western plains, but in the end he broke the rules himself. This is also something that ordinary Westerns do not have.
When the young burglar was forced to confess, he thought that the policemen and magistrates in the town could tell the word, so he betrayed the woman, but in fact, these "strong men" did not intend to talk to a burglar about the rules, so it was ironic that he was quickly betrayed by others after betraying the person he had sworn to protect.
Above, "Desert Monster" has a variety of anti-settings that ordinary Westerns do not have, so we can get a glimpse of why Westerns finally declined and quickly became history, the reason is that the railway in this film is said to be coming but does not know when it will come. What does the railway represent, it represents the industrial age, it represents the modern order, it represents the hard power that crushes everything. Even if women don't open bars in this place, when the railroad comes, the people in the town who try to protect themselves will usher in the weakening of their sphere of influence.
When industrialization has not swept the entire United States, the western region can also abide by a so-called "chivalrous spirit" to maintain its existing rules and regulations, but when industrialization begins to push towards the western region of the United States a little bit of encroachment, the existing system will be dissolved little by little, the new system abruptly rises, no one can resist the pace of the entire era, even the most powerful people can only borrow the era rather than according to their own strength to fight, otherwise, the end is very bad. Why Westerns are in decline, because industrialization is a more cruel new system than Westerns, and when it slowly advances, Westerns can only end sadly.
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