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Hi Mark Well I suppose I ought to plead guilty to a tendency towards grand philosophical statements. But really it was a gut feeling which I analysed. I left the cinema feeling depressed. I agree the movie was a plausible evocation in terms of the aesthetic dimension. It did look great and I agree that was a big plus. Also I love them thar old Protestant hymns and I were reared a Catholic in Northern Ireland! But I have come to the conclusion that there is something slick and sick about the Coens and I tried to give voice to that. I also enter a note that here I have been very influenced by Comrade Proyect. My reading of Mattie at the end of the film is debatable - granted. Perhaps the brilliance of the acting of the younger Mattie bewildered me. Maybe the feistiness survived. But the lines about Frank James were unmotivated apart possibly from the fact that he did not stand up. This was a bad man, but then so was Younger. I thought it strange that we ended so strongly with the Quantrill connection and the "lively times" that the old men had had. comradely Gary ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
