One of the most underrated movies.

Rating: 10/10 (6 February 2016)

SPOILERS.
It is extremely hard to find a movie that succeeds on every level, where each character,costume, quote, scene, soundtrack plays huge role in creating perfectly balanced plot and directing. The Assassination of Jesse James by Coward Robert Ford is a movie about how veneration can turn in anger, and eventually in abhorrence. It's a movie about violence, respect, love and hate. It's a movie about a time and place. And first of all, it's a movie about life that everyone should see.
The fantastic scenes(Robert killing Jesse, Railroad train robbery) and shots (wheat fields that Pitt elegantly moves through) of Roger Deakins along with intricate and stunning performances from Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck make the movie real and feel the audience engaged. Nick Cave and Warren Ellis deliver one of the soundtracks ever made ("Rather Lovely thing") that create the tensed and melancholic atmosphere. The costumes and elaborated dialogs make the plot flow easily. Andrew Dominik's direction is unique and flawless. He uses the camera in way that you never miss anything that happens and eventually keeps you riveted for almost 3 hours.
As the plot develops, we see more and more depths of the characters. Robert Ford's unique obsession and craving to become like Jesse James leads to his inferiority complex. He starts to really consider himself a vagrant, an outlaw, a Hero. But he's the only one who thinks so. Robert spends his life proving that he is really what he wants to be, and eventually fails. Jesse James, on contrary, doesn't think of himself as a hero. He dies by his own choice, and becomes an icon of the society. All attempts of Robert to prove his bravery and heroism is futile and pointless. Robert Ford dies and becomes forgetful while Jesse James continues living as a famous icon even after his death.
For those who believe that a movie is an art form that can make you think, this one is a masterpiece. And those who seek instant pleasures and use movies as a tool to kill time, you better find another one to watch. The Assassination of Jesse James by Coward Robert Ford is a philosophical, poetic, profound and limitlessly beautiful movie that is definitely worth watching.