A boy hiding in a closet. A bad dream about the death of childhood. Eruptions of shocking violence. Small-time hick dreamers whose only way out of the depression is killing and robbing. Who believe they're heroes.
Lovers chasing each other through a field and a cloud shadow drifts over the yellow wheat.
An old black man is kindly invited to fire a pistol. C.W. parks the car at the robbery, and struggles to get it out. And the hilarious abduction of a terrified minister Gene Wilder. The jokes on top of the killings. And, of course, the ending.