Bad Day at Black Rock Review
An astonishingly sophisticated take on the western genre. This takes the thematic trappings of the form—the juxtaposition of physically open space with the claustrophobia of the need for survival, fetishization of self-reliant masculinity, and of course relentless xenophobia—and turns them back on the concept of "the west" itself. It's going for the throat of an idealized representation of America itself in a way that's shocking for a film from this era.
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