My summary above refers to the fact that this is a very unusual Western (not surprising since it's directed by Jim Jarmusch, a director known for always making different sorts of movies). Now this is not for saying that it's a bad movie, but it was somewhere in the middle.
William Blake (Johnny Depp) is an accountant from Cleveland that at the beginning travels by train to the company town of Machine for accepting an accounting job in the metal factory. When William arrives he notices the townspeople's hostility towards him and discovers that is position is already and he is taken out at gunpoint by the evil director of the company John Dickinson (Robert Mitchum in one of his last movies). Blake then meets a young woman at the saloon and spends a night with her. Unfortunately her boyfriend Charlie (Gabriel Byrne) who is also John Dickinson's son, finds them in the hotel room and William shoots him. William then flees and meets an Indian named Nobody and they ride together. John wants to avenge his son's death and hires bounty hunters Cole Wilson (Lance Henriksen), Conway Twill and Johnny Pickett for bringing William Blake dead or alive. Will he manage to end safely? See the movie.
This is a different kind of Western as in most of them there were lots of shootouts yet very clean looking folks. Here instead there are few gunshots and the people all look dirty, grimy and unlikeable. A few of the moments were even a bit gross, but the good outweighted the bad and I wanted to like it more. Johnny Depp gives one of his early great roles and all the supporting actors were good. The cinematography in black and white looked very stilysh and the soundtrack was also nice.
A nice experiment not to be missed by Western fans even tho it might not be for all tastes.
William Blake (Johnny Depp) is an accountant from Cleveland that at the beginning travels by train to the company town of Machine for accepting an accounting job in the metal factory. When William arrives he notices the townspeople's hostility towards him and discovers that is position is already and he is taken out at gunpoint by the evil director of the company John Dickinson (Robert Mitchum in one of his last movies). Blake then meets a young woman at the saloon and spends a night with her. Unfortunately her boyfriend Charlie (Gabriel Byrne) who is also John Dickinson's son, finds them in the hotel room and William shoots him. William then flees and meets an Indian named Nobody and they ride together. John wants to avenge his son's death and hires bounty hunters Cole Wilson (Lance Henriksen), Conway Twill and Johnny Pickett for bringing William Blake dead or alive. Will he manage to end safely? See the movie.
This is a different kind of Western as in most of them there were lots of shootouts yet very clean looking folks. Here instead there are few gunshots and the people all look dirty, grimy and unlikeable. A few of the moments were even a bit gross, but the good outweighted the bad and I wanted to like it more. Johnny Depp gives one of his early great roles and all the supporting actors were good. The cinematography in black and white looked very stilysh and the soundtrack was also nice.
A nice experiment not to be missed by Western fans even tho it might not be for all tastes.