Six Reasons Why (2008) (V)

Directors:

Jeff Campagna
Matthew Campagna

Writers:

Jeff Campagna (writer)
Matthew Campagna (writer)

Release Date:

15 July 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Sci-Fi | Western

Tagline:

If You're Not Cheating, You're Not Trying Hard Enough

Plot Keywords:

Brother Brother Relationship | Low Budget Film | Cowboy | Spaghetti | Campagna

Cast

Dan Wooster	...	The Nomad
Mads Koudal	...	The Sherpa
Christopher Harrison	...	The Entrepreneur
Colm Feore	...	The Preacher
Jeff Campagna	...	The Criminal
Matthew Campagna	...	Milton Joyce
Aaron Harrison	...	The Entrepreneurs Father
Romas Stanulis	...	The Zeppelin Scout
Geoff Kolomayz	...	The Barkeeper
Anastasia Tubanos	...	Radio Announcer
Mike Celia	...	Johnny Guitar
Rudy Jahchan	...	Nomad's Father
Casey McKinnon	...	Nomad's Mother
Rosie	...	The Horse

MPAA:

Rated R for some violence and language.

Runtime:

USA:88 min

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

USA:Not Rated

Filming Locations:

Alberta, Canada

Company:

Campagna Brothers Independent Productions

Trivia:

Jeff Campagna and Colm Feore met by chance in late 2005 on a plane coming back from London, England. A year later The Campagna Brothers shot the film and cut together the opening credits with Colm Feore's face and name already included. They showed him the opening credit sequence on a laptop out front of a theater he had just preformed in, in Stratford, Ontario. It was after seeing himself already in the opening credits, that Colm Feore agreed to play the role of The Preacher, which was written specifically for him.

Quotes:

The Sherpa: Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.

Movie Connections:

References C'era una volta il West (1968)

Hit or Myth

The overt mythic qualities of Six Reason Why nearly suffocate the agile and action-based story line that concerns cowboys laying down the law of the land with their six shooters. Long moments are spent showing the cowboys guns fingered into readiness as they face each other down; characters peer at each other from beneath the brim of their hats; the only horse in the film gets long camera takes almost as if as a separate character his appearance states a certain truth about the place this film holds in the Western myth.

The filmmakers eschew any semblance of character goal-achieving objectivity by locating the essence of their tale in storytelling and a dialogue-driven re-affirmation of the code of the old west, with more than a few twists and turns to renovate the film vehicle into a post-modern parable told and retold in flashback as with each successive plot point we go into each character's past to see how they have arrived at the present place in the tale. The overt concept that the Nomad uses as motivation for dispatching his prey is nebulous and without an objective correlative that identifies it must be found in the viewer as part of the baggage he brings to the film from seeing just this kind of western before.