As one of the most important genres of American cinema, Westerns have been in decline for half a century.
Although there are no shortage of great works born during this period and have won mainstream awards, it is difficult for Westerns to return to the past.
Kevin Costner's directorial debut [Dancing with Wolves] was one of the best Westerns of the '90s, culminating in an Oscar 7 in 1991
Coincidentally, at the 75th Venice Film Festival in 2018, two films set in the American West were also shortlisted for the main competition section.
One is the "Ballad of Buster Scrugs" (click to review) that won the Best Screenplay Award and was included in the Top 5 Most Watchable Films of 2018 (click to review), and the other is the "Hissty Brothers" that won Jacques Odia the Best Director Award.
French director Jacques Odia is a regular guest at europe's three major film festivals.
Jacques Odia won the Palme d'Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, when his director [The Wandering Dipan] won the Palme d'Or
Although Jacques Odia has only made 8 feature films in his more than 40 years, 7 of them have been shortlisted for the "Big Three" (5 times for the Cannes Film Festival, 1 for Berlin, 1 time for Venice).
[The Rhythm of My Heart Forgotten], [The Prophet], [Rust and Bone], and [Wandering Dipan] are the 4 most watched films of Jacques Odia, of which [Rust].
[The Hitstes] is based on the best-selling novel of the same name and is Jacques Odia's first English-language feature film.
The novel [The Heath brothers] was ranked first in the 100 Best Books of 2011 by Amazon Canada and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize
However, the mixing of French art film directors and the American West did not add any sense of discord to [The Heath brothers].
[The Heathstones Brothers] are well received by fans, and Rotten Tomatoes also has an 85% freshness rating
Time Out Magazine Review: You don't need to have much love for Westerns to have fun with Jacques O'd'Ordía's twisted, unexpected, bluntly ridiculous frontier stories.
The Warp also commented that it was a massive Western and an intimate character film; that it had moments of organic intelligence and devastating tragedies; that it delved into larger themes and offered hope for redemption.
In the cast of this film, Jacqueline Phoenix and Jack Gyllenhaal are the two actors that fans are most familiar with.
Although he entered the show business under the influence of his brother Revan Phoenix, Jacqueline was not overshadowed by the aura of his brother who died prematurely.
In 2012, [The Master] won him Best Actor in Venice, and in 2017 he won the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival for "You Never Been Here."]
Jacqueline Phoenix plays a killer in "You've Never Been Here," and his role in the film has some of De Niro's shadow in "Taxi Driver."
In contrast, Jack Gyllenhaal's winning fortunes are mediocre, but there are many deeply rooted roles.
After [Brokeback Mountain], Jack Gyllenhaal's performances in [Prisoner] and [Nightcrawler] were equally eye-catching. The latter, in particular, helped him earn more than 50 performance nominations.
[Nightcrawler] (above) VS. [Iron Fist], Jack Gyllenhaal in the former completely from the male god incarnated male nerves, the prize is still promising
Ritz Ahmed's experience is more legendary. He graduated from Oxford University and worked as a rapper. In 2016, Ritz, who was over 30 years old, played a high school student in the HBO drama "Sin Night's Run" that year, and eventually won the Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries/TV Movie.
However, his most familiar role for domestic film fans is the evil boss played in 2018 [Venom: Deadly Guardians]."
Ritz Ahmed's prison life away from The Night of Sin has also become more high-end
Of the four actors, John C. Reilly may be the kind of familiar supporting character you often see in movies, but you can't name it.
[Chicago], Roman Polanski's [Killing], Paul Thomas Anderson's [Magnolia], Oggs Lancemos's [Lobster]... There is a figure of him.
Although it looks a little fierce, John C. Reilly did not play the role of an honest man in the movie
The four lead actors were also recognized for their same-time show, and the New York Times praised it: "A lot of the fun of the film comes from its four main characters, who are good when paired, but it is more attractive to appear in a team at the same time.
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The story of [The Heathstones] revolves around a pair of brothers, Eli (John H. C. Reilly) and Charlie (Jacqueline Phoenix) expand, they are the notorious bounty hunters of the West.
Eli (left) and Charlie don't look like stubble
This time, the brothers take on a new assignment from the "Commander", following the clues provided by the Scout Morris (Jack Gyllenhaal) ahead, and hunting down the gold prospector Herman (Ritz Ahmed).
[The Heathstones] is the second collaboration between Ritz Ahmed and Jack Gyllenhaal after Nightwalker (above).
Although they are brothers in law, Eli and Charlie, who are also killers, have very different personalities.
Charlie is like a complete rotten man, tyrannical and passionate about killing.
His brother Eli also did the work of killing people and crossing the goods, but he always wanted to be a good boy in his heart.
Even when it comes to rolling sheets, Eli just wants to play role-play.
He asked the prostitute to give himself the shawl in a soft language, as she did with her lover who was about to leave.
In order to achieve results, Eli constantly plays tricks on prostitutes
That's right, killer Eli wants a home.
Once the prodigal son has a weak rib in his heart, then he is not far from quitting the jianghu.
Eli then planned retirement with his brother.
The villain Charlie obviously did not have this intention, and the brothers had swept the west for many years, making many enemies, so how easy was it to wash their hands in the golden basin?
In order to one day completely put down the butcher knife, you must first stop killing... The golden basin of washing hands is definitely a false proposition for the brothers
Moreover, the "commander" big man may not be willing to let the tiger return to the mountain.
Just as the smoke of infighting between the two brothers filled the air, Morris, who was constantly luring Herman into the death trap, gradually wavered on the other side.
Under Herman's influence, Morris is also determined to stay away from the killing with him.
Unfortunately, the four of them met in a narrow way after all.
A shootout was about to take place, but the intervention of a third party allowed the two teams to maintain a superficial peace. As the saying goes, the enemy of the enemy is the friend.
In order to save their lives, the four temporarily stood on a front
But when the common enemy disappears, will the four of them go down the river together to pan for gold, or will they go to the road of annihilation?
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If [Buster Scruggers' Ballad] is an anti-routine Western, then [The Heath brothers] may be a fringe Western.
The former erased the aura of the West, and the latter simply ended the West.
Gold prospector Herman developed a chemical solution that was poured into the river to separate the gold.
The Commander was desperate to slip the equation out of Herman's mouth and monopolize the solution. After all, if it really works, the traditional and inefficient way of panning for gold will undoubtedly be eliminated and upgraded.
Let's not discuss the rationality of this "chemical separation solution" for the time being, in short, the bud of science and technology has taken the lead in giving the west a hammer.
From now on, the gold panning industry does not rely on luck and recklessness, but on science. Violence can no longer be a passport to the West.
Many people did not believe Herman's words, but most of them wanted to kill him
And the yearning for civilization in the hearts of several people has caused the wild west to collapse with the power of destruction and decay.
In the film, Herman looks like an overarching idealist who has been unprovokedly involved in the West, and Morris is a misguided lamb.
Maurice is anxious to get rid of his father's control, so he blindly chooses to spy on the killer and seek financial independence.
Morris also understood that he had always been driven by hatred
Can making choices against one's heart in order to resist be called freedom?
This is not a form of self-imprisonment.
Eli was one of the brothers who woke up earlier, and he had become a killer for his brother. Eli longed to establish a connection with civilized life, and toothbrushes, shawls, including old horses that refused to be thrown down, were the embodiment of the softness and warmth of his heart.
Today also to do the exquisite fragrant boy, Eli brushing his teeth This scene is a bit funny and a little sad, which is a few safe ways for killers to civilize
But Charlie, who is drunk and can still kill his opponent, is he a natural bad breed?
Nor is it true that in a barbaric society, killing is the best means for him to save himself.
One second it makes your opponents sick, and the next second you can kill all four
If he could live peacefully in dignity in a civilized society, would he still choose to massacre?
The plot in which the protagonists are caught up in two kinds of lives tearing apart is inevitably reminiscent of director Jacques Odia's previous work [The Rhythm Of My Heart Forgets].
Whether to obey inertia and be a thug or listen to the inspiration of beauty from the heart is the choice faced by the male protagonist Tom in [The Rhythm of My Heart Forgetting]."
At the heart of the [Hisstes Brothers] story is civilization's expulsion of barbarism.
The West in the film may be just a microcosm, from chaos to order, the law of survival changes, this development trend is always as difficult to resist no matter when and where.
Jacques Odia constructs a violent and brutal western road movie with delicate warmth. Of course, this is not an elegy dedicated to the West, let alone a soul for the spirit of the West.
This time, how "anti-type" is the wild west that has been deconstructed by literary and artistic methods?
The 1080p resources for this film have been released