This movie is just a random series of events with a very general plot of two boys trying to find a better life only to find their way back home. The story follows John Grady Cole (Matt Damon) and Lacy Rawlins (Henry Thomas) as set off in search for better ranches in Mexico as ranching in the U.S. is going down in the 1940’s. They run into a boy named Jimmy Blevins (Lucas Black) who is also looking into the better life of ranching. Once they get a job on a Ranch Cole falls in love with the Rancher’s Daughter (Penelope Cruz) and Blevins makes a huge mistake. This movie jumps from scene to scene with little explanation about what is happening. Case in point, Lacy Rawlins is stabbed repeatedly in prison and you are made to believe that he is dead until John Cole is stabbed and then released from prison and we find Rawlins waiting for him on the outside with no explanation on how he lived and how they got out. It is explained how they got out of prison later on in the movie but it is never explained how Rawlins lived other than they pumped a liter of Mexican blood into him. All The Pretty Horses is also an incredibly depressing movie with a depressing but deep message and that message is the only reason that I can see Matt Damon signed on to this Billy Bob Thorton directed atrocity. That message is human’s are cruel to each other, as demonstrated by the scene where a Mexican police captain drags Blevins out into the desert and shoots him even after the person who paid to kill Blevins himself refuses. This is just a depressing movie with no fantastic acting or fight scenes to rationalize the brutality.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
All The Pretty Horses
This movie is just a random series of events with a very general plot of two boys trying to find a better life only to find their way back home. The story follows John Grady Cole (Matt Damon) and Lacy Rawlins (Henry Thomas) as set off in search for better ranches in Mexico as ranching in the U.S. is going down in the 1940’s. They run into a boy named Jimmy Blevins (Lucas Black) who is also looking into the better life of ranching. Once they get a job on a Ranch Cole falls in love with the Rancher’s Daughter (Penelope Cruz) and Blevins makes a huge mistake. This movie jumps from scene to scene with little explanation about what is happening. Case in point, Lacy Rawlins is stabbed repeatedly in prison and you are made to believe that he is dead until John Cole is stabbed and then released from prison and we find Rawlins waiting for him on the outside with no explanation on how he lived and how they got out. It is explained how they got out of prison later on in the movie but it is never explained how Rawlins lived other than they pumped a liter of Mexican blood into him. All The Pretty Horses is also an incredibly depressing movie with a depressing but deep message and that message is the only reason that I can see Matt Damon signed on to this Billy Bob Thorton directed atrocity. That message is human’s are cruel to each other, as demonstrated by the scene where a Mexican police captain drags Blevins out into the desert and shoots him even after the person who paid to kill Blevins himself refuses. This is just a depressing movie with no fantastic acting or fight scenes to rationalize the brutality.
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