Cast: Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck
Directore : Andrew Dominik
A Movie starring Brad Pitt has to be special. He is my most favourite actor all over world. But When I tell you that this movie has been lying in my library for more than 3 months and I dint watch it just because it sounded so slow and boring. What do i say here, that I made a mistake? Brad Pitt never disappoints.
| The ways of the world are truly strange. You kill a robber and a murderer and you end up being labelled a coward. That's the fate that dogged Robert Ford (Casey Affleck), a young man who joined the gang of famed bandit, Jesse James (Brad Pitt) and ended up killing him, hoping to end a career in crime. But Ford didn't realise that he wasn't the only one who hero worshipped the legend of Missouri. Despite his sundry heists and his infamous crime list which included seventeen murders, Jesse James, the great train robber of the 1880's, was essentially a Robin Hoodwho loomed larger than life for the commonplace and non-heroic citizens of the wild West.
The film is essentially a biopic of the bandit with a focus on his relationship with his assassin, Ford, who first met him as a star-struck admirer, trying to enlist the similarities between him and his hero. You have blue eyes, I have blue eyes too, he exults, and joins the James gang in its last great heist: the Blue Cut Train Robbery, spearheaded by Jesse and his elder brother, Frank (Sam Shepard). But, it doesn't take long for the young Ford to realise it takes more than a pair of blue eyes to make a balsy hero who could kill without compunction and yet double up as a devoted husband and father and a disciplined celebrity. In a pointed query, Jesse asks his devotee: You want to be like me or you want to be ME? Ford, bogged down by his inadequacies, gradually finds his adulation changing to envy and in a dimly lit parlour, when Jesse has given up his life of crime, he seeks out his fifteen minutes of fame.
It's a long, meandering film which keeps you engrossed with its hard-hitting performances and its intricate eye for detail. While Brad Pitt brings to life the mythical figure, complete, with his majesty and meanness, Casey Affleck is both edgy and unpredictable. But in the final count, it is Roger Deakins breathtaking cinematography which leaves you spellbound with its compelling frames of the expansive planes of the untamed Wes |
| he ways of the world are truly strange. You kill a robber and a murderer and you end up being labelled a coward. That's the fate that dogged Robert Ford (Casey Affleck), a young man who joined the gang of famed bandit, Jesse James (Brad Pitt) and ended up killing him, hoping to end a career in crime. But Ford didn't realise that he wasn't the only one who hero worshipped the legend of Missouri. Despite his sundry heists and his infamous crime list which included seventeen murders, Jesse James, the great train robber of the 1880's, was essentially a Robin Hoodwho loomed larger than life for the commonplace and non-heroic citizens of the wild West.
The film is essentially a biopic of the bandit with a focus on his relationship with his assassin, Ford, who first met him as a star-struck admirer, trying to enlist the similarities between him and his hero. You have blue eyes, I have blue eyes too, he exults, and joins the James gang in its last great heist: the Blue Cut Train Robbery, spearheaded by Jesse and his elder brother, Frank (Sam Shepard). But, it doesn't take long for the young Ford to realise it takes more than a pair of blue eyes to make a balsy hero who could kill without compunction and yet double up as a devoted husband and father and a disciplined celebrity. In a pointed query, Jesse asks his devotee: You want to be like me or you want to be ME? Ford, bogged down by his inadequacies, gradually finds his adulation changing to envy and in a dimly lit parlour, when Jesse has given up his life of crime, he seeks out his fifteen minutes of fame.
It's a long, meandering film which keeps you engrossed with its hard-hitting performances and its intricate eye for detail. While Brad Pitt brings to life the mythical figure, complete, with his majesty and meanness, Casey Affleck is both edgy and unpredictable. But in the final count, it is Roger Deakins breathtaking cinematography which leaves you spellbound with its compelling frames of the expansive planes of the untamed West. Recommended. |
Rating :
* * * & 1/2
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