A morality tale

Rating: Null/10 (17 December 2007)

I don't see it so much as a film of violence as of fate, and choice. That runs through the movie time and again. About the rule, the rule that got you here, and so what good is it. And the coin toss for life: the bad guy is nothing more than the same chance as a coin toss: "stuff" is out there all the time. Both he and Lewlyn have to buy shirts off of kids to escape and both times the kids, initially innocent, to some degree, turn avaricious at the presentation of money. The guy is a "ghost". People are warned that getting killed by this guy is a sure thing, and get, they toss the coin, the choose to go after the guy, and they all get killed. All of them. But not the sheriff. I'm not clear how the sheriff escaped that fate, and I don't know why Lewelyn goes back to the scene of the massacre with water... if he hadn't have gone back, he might have been free and clear. He knows it's a bad idea, but what was the idea? Did he go back to make sure the guy was dead? To keep him alive with the water? Surely, the guy is long dead.