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In Reply to: Vengeance is one of the six themes of any Western. You'd prefer to call posted by tinear on March 3, 2006 at 04:19:27:
He does force the border guard to face the consequences of his action. To me, this seems similar to forcing a robber to pay back the money he stole from the victim. I don't see this as vengeance or revenge, more simple (but rough) justice. I guess I see a bit more subtlety to this story than you do. After all, the killing was not intentional. And the border guard is not thoroughly evil. Revenge is certainly common enough in movies, including Westerns, but revenge is usually taken against people who do evil things, not simply make a mistake.
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was the fact that it took twenty minutes for Mel to die but the ranger did NOTHING to save him. That's murder.
Tommy seems to have killing in mind from the beginning: remember the many times he threatened to kill his "prisoner" is he tried to escape... and believably said so?
Actually, the film seems to be about redemption through revenge: remember the strong point made about the Mexican woman smashing his nose in retribution and forgiving him later?
Hey, did you notice Levon Helm from the Band? He was the old blind geezer...
I'm not going to argue opinions, but thanks for telling me that part. I had no idea.
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