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True Grit.
Jan. 5th, 2011 16:53True Grit. Dir. Joel & Ethan Coen, 2010.
I've never seen the original movie, and I have absolutely no interest in doing so now or ever; I enjoyed this one thoroughly for itself. The Coen brothers are still asking, as I think a good many serious artists are, What the hell is wrong with (white) America? and this time the question leads them to Arkansas and the Choctaw nation it borders not too long after the Civil War, where Maddy Ross's father has just been murdered in cold blood by his hired hand Tom Chaney. Maddy, being the hard-headed frontier girl that she is, sets out to see her father's murderer brought to justice, and hires U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn, and falls in with Texas Ranger LaBouef, along the way. She's heard that Cogburn has true grit, but their adventure beyond the state's borders proves that all three of them do, regardless of appearances.
( I think if there's one thing that the Coen brothers know well it's that law and violence are fundamentally constitutive of one another )
I've never seen the original movie, and I have absolutely no interest in doing so now or ever; I enjoyed this one thoroughly for itself. The Coen brothers are still asking, as I think a good many serious artists are, What the hell is wrong with (white) America? and this time the question leads them to Arkansas and the Choctaw nation it borders not too long after the Civil War, where Maddy Ross's father has just been murdered in cold blood by his hired hand Tom Chaney. Maddy, being the hard-headed frontier girl that she is, sets out to see her father's murderer brought to justice, and hires U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn, and falls in with Texas Ranger LaBouef, along the way. She's heard that Cogburn has true grit, but their adventure beyond the state's borders proves that all three of them do, regardless of appearances.
( I think if there's one thing that the Coen brothers know well it's that law and violence are fundamentally constitutive of one another )