Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by vocalion (A) on May 16, 2004 at 14:37:10

In Reply to: "Stagecoach" last night on cable posted by Victor Khomenko on May 13, 2004 at 05:46:19:

Maybe I am alone but I really liked this movie. The photography was superb. Neil Young's soundtrack was powerful as hell, too. And this sad, gruesome chronicle of a film can also be a lot of fun, especially if you like poking fun at American society (as I suspect that you do...). A little heavy on the overt symbolism, but still quite fun. We have the dispossesed Easterner "trying to get away". The gradual journey into the wilderness on board the "train of death", with the destination being the town of "Machine". The symbolic killing of Old Father/Mother Europe (Bounty Hunter Lance Henriksen "fucked his mother and father", and then ate them), in America, and the subsequent working out of homelessness pervades the film. Johnny Depp is the walking "dead man" (The American) who is lucky enough to befriend a man who realizes this and who is more than happy to assist him in a proper burial (The Indian). And much, much more... Good film!