The Western is as slow-paced and lax as its name suggests. A bounty hunter, a simple melancholy teenager, all the way to the west, creeping along. There is no quick and wanton revenge, no wit and courage to punish evil and promote good, and no lonely and decisive chivalrous guest riding in the dust. Only the mountains are high and the water is far away, only the love of the teenager, as pure as the magnificent blue sky, as deep as the starry night sky.
Jay, a 16-year-old, sleeps rough in the wilderness of the west, looking up at the stars overhead. Pegasus, Ursa Major, Draco, Andromeda... He drew the belt of Orion with a revolver. He will guard his lover like a heroic hunter.
But, this lonely teenager, have you ever heard that poignant love story? Do you know orion, the son of Poseidon, the god of the sea, who is brave and brave, and his arrows are unmatched. He met Artemis, the goddess of the hunt, and from then on he fell in love with each other, walked among the clouds, and joined hands in the end of the world. Because of a terrible mistake, because of one of Apollo's poisonous schemes, the goddess killed her beloved lover by mistake and shot an arrow through his head. Before he could say goodbye, before he could look at his sweetheart again, Orion died. O melancholy teenager, do you know that Orion is the Orion?
The teenager closed his eyes. In this dangerous wilderness, he tucked the pistol he relied on for self-defense into the package, but held the compass tightly in his arms. Because he knew that the compass would always be pointing to the West and would take him there. There was his lover day and night.
He knew that the desolate and barbaric West was full of killing machines. Murderous thugs will come to ask for their lives at any time like wandering lone ghosts, and mysterious Indians will launch sneak attacks when you are not paying attention. However, he couldn't take care of so much. He crossed the sea from distant Scotland and trekked thousands of miles desperately. He was going to go all the way west, through the green forest, to meet his lover.
A dirty bounty hunter rescues him from a thug. He hated this rude killer, but what could he do, he couldn't go that far alone. He paid the bounty hunter to escort him to meet his beloved woman.
In a small grocery store, a desperate woman kills the owner of the grocery store. She pointed a gun at the bounty hunter and demanded money. The teenager shot and killed the woman from behind. However, when they were full of food and ready to go on the road, they found the woman's two young children waiting outside the door. He put down his food, left the two children and fled in a hurry.
How much he hated himself. He killed the woman and left the two children alone. His hands were stained with blood. But what else could it be? He was going to meet his beloved woman. Only the overflowing love that overflowed from the restless heart could restore his soul to peace again. He was going to come to her lover and tell her it wasn't her fault.
He wants to tell his lover that no matter what kind of difficulties he encounters, no matter how much suffering he suffers, he must also go to his lover's side. He wanted to tell her that although his rich uncle looked down on her, even though his uncle had been killed by her father by mistake in the dispute, he did not resent her. He's going to tell his lover that it's all his fault!
But the woman named Rose didn't love him.
Unbeknownst to the teenager, Rose and her father fled to the west, but were still arrested for a bounty of $2,000. At this time, a group of thugs was following in their footsteps.
The bounty hunter tied the teenager to a tree at the edge of the forest and went alone to Rose's cabin, reminding her that danger was approaching. The mob passed by the teenager's side, and not far away there was a chaotic gunshot...
The teenager struggled to break the rope and galloped toward his lover's cabin. He ran hard. He abandoned everything, he threw everything away, just for the coming of this moment. He avoided the hail of bullets and pushed open Rose's door. Finally, I can meet my lover!
However, just as he pushed open the door and broke in, before he could say a word, he was shot dead by Rose.
Yes, in a panic, Rose simply shot the teenager in the heart. I couldn't help but laugh when I saw this.
The director of this film probably deliberately played a black humor to the audience. The bullets fired by the thugs outside the house shattered the salt jar, and a large amount of salt fell on the heart of the teenager, and he screamed in pain!
Even more humorously, Rose never looked at the teenager in the first half of the eye. She also kissed goodbye to an Indian boy in front of the teenager. The Indian boy, still dipped in the sweat of the teenager on his face, broke out of the door and threw a fire into the wheat field, luring out the mob outside the house, sacrificing himself and saving Rose.
It wasn't until the terrified Rose thought she had killed all the thugs that she noticed that the teenager named Jay was looking at herself with the slightest hint of strength in his eyes. The look in his eyes was filled with devout longing and love, without a trace of hatred.
Rose crawled in front of the teenager. At the moment she didn't have much grief but only guilt. The teenager wants to hold Rose's hand, but is resisted by Rose's psychological instincts. Rose also refers to teenagers as "silly kids."
Unfortunately, there was another bad guy who wasn't dead, and he pushed the door and walked in. Rose immediately had a stroke of genius, turned her back on the villain, and shoved a pistol into the dying Jay's hand. So Jay shot the villain with his last strength. He used his life to save the woman he was dreaming of.
And this woman, the woman who fled all the way from Scotland, not only shot and killed the teenager who loved him with all his life, but also used the last remnants of his life to escape from his life.
At this time, the bounty hunter, who had been crippled by the mob, walked in. Rose then married the bounty hunter. They also adopted the two abandoned children and lived happily ever after.
You see, fall in love with a woman who doesn't love you, and you're probably going to die a miserable death. Some women just won't fall in love with you, and no matter how much you love her, she won't love you either. She can fall in love with the savage Indian guy, she can fall in love with any lame rough guy who pushes the door in, but she just won't love you, and she will beat you to death and kill you.
However, if this movie had gone to such great lengths to tell us this, then I would not have written this full of nonsense without even having time to eat.
Remember the late American film critic Roger Ebert once pointed out, "The basic spirit of most traditional Westerns stems from the biblical teaching: 'If a man loses his soul, even if he can win the whole world, what good does he have?'" ’”
In this sense, "Western Slow" is also an old-school Western about the redemption of the soul. However, the two main characters, the young Jay and the bounty hunter, seem to be a bit of a hanger and not doing business. They are a woman who only thinks about the love in their hearts, and a woman who is always oscillating between killing and doing good. This makes the film much less dramatic and more like a low-key and niche literary film. Despite this, a total of 17 people died before and after the film, which is not much less than those exaggerated crime films.
Annoyingly, this bounty hunter actually lost his gun. For a killer like him, who has been wandering the west for many years, losing a gun is equivalent to losing his own life. This is incomprehensible. Everything changed when he met the 16-year-old.
Young Jay looked weak and windy, like a little lamb that anyone could kill. He slowly walked from the vast west, and although he lost his life, it was like a spring breeze thawing, making this land full of killing glow with a different kind of vitality.
The western world under the director's camera is beautiful and magnificent, like a beautiful natural scenery film. And the soundtrack that is tainted with talking about sadness, they are as elegant and pure as the young Jay, and they are integrated with it. In contrast, the thugs who kill without blinking seem to be incompatible with such a westworld.
As the bounty hunter finally said, "His soul is sincere!" "Survival is not enough for life, and Jay taught me that. "This 16-year-old boy, he loves, he keeps loving. Love is so pure, love is so thorough, without a trace of remorse, without a grain of dust. He told us not to lose the ability to love someone at any time, and to love long and long, new and renewed! This will be the most valuable asset of your life.
At the end of the film, the bounty hunter straightens the horseshoe at the door, and the beautiful scenery outside the window pours in. Together with Rose, who had secretly given birth to him, he remained in the west, where the boy rested. They will use the rest of their lives to guard this purified land.
By the way, the bounty hunter was played by Michael Fassbinder, nicknamed "Law Shark." Although he is only responsible for playing cool in the film, and does not show fat buttocks or muscles, as long as he sits there and does not move, it is enough for hungry boys and girls to drool. I believe that friends who like the law shark will not miss this movie.
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