I didn't know that Tommy Lee Jones directed this film, but directing was one of the things I liked the most about it.
In the whole movie there's always a dark/sad scene followed by a light/happy one, and it goes on and on like this until the end. And that's what made this movie bearable to watch. I'm a mother and the scenes with the dead babies, or the mother who throws her baby to the toilet was just too much for me... But the little happy moments following made me keep watching this. I think that this is actually a good directing technique and fitting to movies that want to talk about reality/real life etc.
Also the movie achieved to get me to that western atmosphere very well. It made me feel the sun, the cold wind, the silence and loneliness of the scenery, the attitude and way of living of the people of that time.
I also liked the ending in which I think that Tommy Lee Jones wants to say that incidents in life may change us temporally but in the end we never change and we're always the same.
Very good movie in general, quite cruel but realistic and honest.
In the whole movie there's always a dark/sad scene followed by a light/happy one, and it goes on and on like this until the end. And that's what made this movie bearable to watch. I'm a mother and the scenes with the dead babies, or the mother who throws her baby to the toilet was just too much for me... But the little happy moments following made me keep watching this. I think that this is actually a good directing technique and fitting to movies that want to talk about reality/real life etc.
Also the movie achieved to get me to that western atmosphere very well. It made me feel the sun, the cold wind, the silence and loneliness of the scenery, the attitude and way of living of the people of that time.
I also liked the ending in which I think that Tommy Lee Jones wants to say that incidents in life may change us temporally but in the end we never change and we're always the same.
Very good movie in general, quite cruel but realistic and honest.