Saturday, April 11, 2015

Hmm …

… The Smart Set: True Grit - April 9, 2015. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The classic Western was a romance, in the medieval sense, the quest tale of a knight errant. The new ones are just tendentious jeremiads on horseback. The classic Western offers harmonic resolution, not escapism. The new ones flatter our cynicism.
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