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Good Western, But.....
68 years young.
I have always loved good westerns, but there are few recent movies which approach The Searchers, Red River, Liberty Valance, the James Stewart classics, Shane, the Eastwood/Leone collaborations, Once Upon a Time in the West, etc.. Unforgiven is a modern classic, the 1st Lonesome Dove is great, and I enjoyed Open Range and the Kurt Russell version of Tombstone.
Bone Tomahawk has an A-list cast, the requisite weathered authentic look in both town and people, beautiful filming and dramatic lighting, solid writing, humor, intriguing plot.
But late in the goings there is a scene of complete and utterly depraved brutality which, to be honest, I wish I had not seen, and wish that I could "unsee". This graphic butchery never would have been shown if this had been filmed in the 50's, 60's, 70's...probably even up to 2000!
Now, practically anything goes. Audiences of today seem unbothered by, and perhaps even relish, seeing this brutality. Certainly one can become inured to it; is it possible to become addicted to it?
Is that progress?
