The Wild Bunch
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Review by MayaDeren_fan

The Wild Bunch 1969

★★★★½

Watched 12 Mar 2018

The Western has difficulties when becoming one of favorites. Few of them I consider great films, save for Rio Bravo and Once upon a Time in the West; The Wild Bunch has joined that club.

Peckinpah creates a western of stylistic glory. He uses fast-cutting and slow-motion to his advantage; the result is multiple suspense-filled sequences influenced by the Soviet Montage theory. In particular, the three main action scenes are master-class in chaos and suspense. Whether it was the opening clash, the stunning train-robbery, or the anarchic climatic free-for-all, Peckinpah's style remains the same.

The thematic and symbolic interpretations is also prevalent in the film. The ending of an era and desperation are key undertones throughout. And the ending brings all of that together. The ending of one era assimilating into the next; the romanticized western days have come to an end, but glimmers of hope welcome the outlaw, morphing into the rebel.

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