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In the surreal frontier of Jim Jarmusch's muddy, bloody, beautiful, and explosively
violent Old West, Depp's mild-mannered bookkeeper William Blake embarks on an
absurdist odyssey that transforms him from Eastern everyman to wounded outlaw on
the run. Unraveling at a leisurely 130 minutes, with spare, striking
black-and-white imagery, the bizarre western teeters from the serene to
punctuations of absurd humor and sudden violence, and Depp sinks into a
trance-like performance as he slowly bleeds out of the world. This is a rare
film where Depp's character may be the only normal guy on the
screen. |