One star is missing because of my waywardness.
When I saw it halfway through, I decided that I would write a review for this movie. And seeing the end of the film, I almost confirmed the title of the film review—strong and straight.
Because this phrase is the best summary of Shane, but I still choose loneliness as the theme. After all, for him, the price of strong and straight is loneliness.
The protagonist Shane is a wandering gunman. After solving the misunderstanding with the farmer Starret, he was invited by the Starret family to stay on the farm. In this small town, he experienced the contradiction between the old cowboy and the new farmer, experienced a happy dance party, and experienced a doomed shootout. His arrival and departure echoed at the beginning and the end of the film. Before he came, he brought an unsolvable mystery, and after he left, he brought the regrets of three people. The similarity is loneliness—coming alone, leaving alone. This makes one can't help but imagine what life was like before his arrival, and also makes one can't help but guess where he will go after he leaves, climb over the mountains, and continue to fight for justice. As he himself said: killing is not a kind of life, it is a way of no return. Perhaps he had experienced a similar situation before he arrived. In order to implement the justice in his heart, he shot several bullets and had to turn around and leave before dawn again with his pistol.
Shane is undoubtedly appeared in the image of a hero, mysterious, strong, handsome, and reliable. The most important thing is that he has found himself, that is, he understands the way he pursues. The most important thing about being a hero is that he must have himself. But unlike the labelled and pure heroic image, he was endowed with many ordinary and people-friendly qualities. "You don't cry out for pain, no matter how painful it is, do you?" "I'm afraid I will cry if it hurts too much." His heroic side is made of iron: a man with extraordinary strength, An independent individual who implements his own justice (even if he loses a bright future for this) and achieves amazing feats; his side as an ordinary person is full of flesh and blood: a kind and loyal person who can restrain selfish desires and reveal a full personality of true feelings. In the picture, Shane has specially arranged for him to wear a calm blue suit with his affectionate blue eyes to distinguish him from the other people who are dressed in khaki and dark green. He is different in the eyes of the little boy and in everyone's eyes.
He is also different from most heroes. He has no partner, no lover, no close friend who can trust his life, and no family that can support each other and shelter from the wind and rain. Shane was lonely as a passerby. Perhaps this is the cost of owning oneself. To expand and extend the ancient Chinese literati's "Su Shi independent but not flowing" is also a kind of loneliness. The more you determine who you are and what you want, the harder it is to find similar souls.
We all know without a doubt that he must draw a gun faster than anyone else, but we don't know if he finally fell and fell on a lonely road of no return. Because justice is not the law, justice belongs to the individual, it is destined not to convince everyone, and it will be like Shane's justice, ruthlessly trampled on the old cowboys who had thrown their blood for the land and were not reconciled.
Defeating evil is never the end of a hero, but loneliness and regret.
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