Title: The Sisters Brothers
Directed by: A Frenchman
Starring: John C Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix, Jake Gyllenhaal, Riz Ahmed
Cuts about 90% of the Picaresque adventures of the brotherly bounty hunters and thus misses the sense of absurdity about the whole thing. It is a dadaish work, standing in opposition to both John Wayne and Unforgiven, declaring that there was no moral order in the West, inverted or otherwise, merely luck and chance, and the only real victims were idealists.
It is significant, I think, that the only character to get a "happy" ending is Eli, the one who had the simplest motives and ambitions.
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