This movie was beautiful but not for the reasons you might think! The majority of reviews I have read, by both layman and film critics were as if the movie is condemning toxic masculinity and how it become the downfall of the man. But quite on the contrary, this film is advocating the get tough or die motto. A message this soft generation madly needs!
It's almost impossible these days to talk over sexual identities without hurting someone's feelings. But all the yelling and nagging aside, there was a time and that's not so long ago that if a man wanted to survive he needed to buck up. Never mind the straight or the offbeat, one has to roll up his sleeves and kill the child inside to let the man be born! And this film is the story of those men.
1925 in the wild wild west. A fluctuating road from hatred to love. The cowboy protagonist catches sight of a simple good-for-nothing lad and despises the weakness in his eyes, yet along the way with all the new changes in the dynamic of his family, he takes a step back remembers his young self, and decides to teach the boy a lesson or two; a mentor in preparation for hard times, and the intimacy that's shaped between the two, which the level of it is subtly mentioned but left to be determined by the viewer alone.
Lastly movie reaches its climax in the very final scene, where we see the rope in the hands of Peter, finally finished. Tho the young boy shall never use it to whip a horse it played a far more important role; a symbol, a memoir of the man who changed him for the better and for the old-time rancher, may that it brought him a sense of happiness and achievement in his last days.
It's almost impossible these days to talk over sexual identities without hurting someone's feelings. But all the yelling and nagging aside, there was a time and that's not so long ago that if a man wanted to survive he needed to buck up. Never mind the straight or the offbeat, one has to roll up his sleeves and kill the child inside to let the man be born! And this film is the story of those men.
1925 in the wild wild west. A fluctuating road from hatred to love. The cowboy protagonist catches sight of a simple good-for-nothing lad and despises the weakness in his eyes, yet along the way with all the new changes in the dynamic of his family, he takes a step back remembers his young self, and decides to teach the boy a lesson or two; a mentor in preparation for hard times, and the intimacy that's shaped between the two, which the level of it is subtly mentioned but left to be determined by the viewer alone.
Lastly movie reaches its climax in the very final scene, where we see the rope in the hands of Peter, finally finished. Tho the young boy shall never use it to whip a horse it played a far more important role; a symbol, a memoir of the man who changed him for the better and for the old-time rancher, may that it brought him a sense of happiness and achievement in his last days.