In my advanced age, one foot in the grave, older than Trajan's sandals, unfit for infantry service what with the eyes, the feet, the strength failing... anyway! As an older coot, I enjoy westerns more than when I was a kid.
Very decently done film, the setting doesn't range far from what is supposed to be 1906 Oklahoma, and probably is (Oklahoma, I mean, it is still 2021, not 1906...). But the entire movie might be contained to that one piece of property and even that could be only 100 acres. What I am saying is they told a good story and didn't have to spend a lotta money to do it.
It stars Tim Blake Nelson (Buster Scruggs, in a previous cowboy role) and he also produced the thing. Character of Henry McCarty. He's a widower farmer, stern, with a teenaged son and some trouble comes to his homestead that he then has to deal with. Henry's never taught the boy how to shoot. Doesn't want him even touching a trigger. Only keeps out a ratty old double barrel shotgun his own self. But...
Lots of gun play, and a big twist or two.
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