High Plains Drifter
(1973)High Plains Drifter 1973
Clint Eastwood's second film as star director (after "Play for Me in the Mist") offers a spaghetti western look in an American-style gothic epilogue. An unshaven, horse-drawn vagrant emerges from the mists of the desert and arrives in Lago, where a former city police chief is beaten to death. In this surreal remake of High Noon (Hero Sheriff), townspeople beg the ghost of a murdered man, especially his brother Eastwood, to fight back against three criminals who have just been released from the state prison and are about to return to the city for brutal revenge. Around 1972, a mysterious man demonstrates his strength by forcing everyone to attend a strange feast that doesn't meet the expectations of gunfire and malice from a pathetic cowboy counter-hero. Outlining the holiday in question, Eastwood appoints the dwarf to the posts of sheriff and mayor, officially painting the city red and renaming it "Hell." Finally, the stranger burns the city, reminiscent of the Vietnamese slogan "we destroyed the city to save it". This funny and wild horror movie borrows many themes from Sergio Leone as well as Luis Buñuel; With a mix of western and horror themes, it's boldly bizarre along with poignant personal analysis throughout.
