The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Three Burials joins Dead Man as one of my few highly-rated westerns. Like Dead Man, its tone meanders from the darkly comic to the melodramatic, and is at times almost unwatchably gruesome. Which does nothing to explain why I liked it, I know.
Special mention to Barry Pepper for taking what must be one of the most thankless roles in movie history: his character is a onanistic racist brute, beaten, dragged by a horse, forced at gunpoint to disinter a corpse, bitten by a rattlesnake, and not the least of which, spends a good part of the movie with his pants down (come to think of it, so does Dwight Yoakam).
Related Posts:
- Crin blanc: Le cheval sauvage (White Mane) / Le ballon rouge (The Red Balloon)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
- Cars
Written by Chad Ossman
