What kind of drama is life

Darlene 2022-04-21 09:02:03

A segmented movie, the story is small and exquisite, but it is full of aftertaste after watching it.

The death of a quick shooter, the death of a bank robber, the death of a gold digger, the death of a showman with no hands and feet, the death of a convoy bodyguard's fiancée, until the debaucher, the devout, the hunter sits in death on the car.

It seems absurd and ridiculous, but it is indeed inevitable. The whole life seems to be bland, but the plot of the dramatic absurdity is more terrifying than the movie, so even if the filmmakers pick out those trivial things, it is shocking enough.

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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs quotes

  • Trapper (segment "The Mortal Remains"): So... him on the roof, he was wanted?

    Englishman (segment "The Mortal Remains"): Oh, Mr. Thorpe was very much wanted... judging by what the are paying for him!

    [the Englishman and the Irishman chuckle]

    Trapper (segment "The Mortal Remains"): What did he do?

    Englishman (segment "The Mortal Remains"): I don't know. Does it matter?

    [addressing the Lady]

    Englishman (segment "The Mortal Remains"): Just as you said, Madame, there are two kinds of people. In our business they are: dead or alive.

  • Englishman (segment "The Mortal Remains"): I must say... it's always interesting watching them after Clarence has worked his art. Watching them negotiate... the passage.

    Frenchman (segment "The Mortal Remains"): Passage?

    Englishman (segment "The Mortal Remains"): From here to there. To the other side. Watching them try to make sense of it, as they pass to that other place. I do like looking into their eyes as they try to make sense of it.

    [stares at the Frenchman]

    Englishman (segment "The Mortal Remains"): I do.

    [stares at the Lady]

    Englishman (segment "The Mortal Remains"): I do.

    Trapper (segment "The Mortal Remains"): Try to make sense of what?

    Englishman (segment "The Mortal Remains"): [stares at the Trapper] All of it.

    Lady (segment "The Mortal Remains"): And do they ever... succeed?

    Englishman (segment "The Mortal Remains"): [smiles] How would I know? I'm only watching!