Dead Man Details

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My favorite film of all time

Well,

This IS dark humour. Everything in this film indicates it is a western but it is not at all at the same time. The actors are magnificent, the story is one of confusion and misunderstanding.

A young accountant moves for a vacancy that is already filled, in a town that seems to be at the end of the world (far far ouest), the town of machine.

He spends his last penny on a very small bottle of whisky, meets a lovely girl, spends the night with her, and they both get shot by her very jealous lover - and son of the hero's ex-future employer. he then runs away, quite badly shot. He gets rescued by a very fat lonely and very educated red indian man.

This very educated indian thinks that the hero (or rather the center of the film) is the writer william Blake until the end of the film, and he accompanies the man until his death through a pseudo initiatic and spiritual journey. The hero does not quite understand what is happening to him, and he still wants to try and decide, but his fate is sealed. The father of the lover is throwing is money at anybody who'd kill the hero, so the best killers are after him, fortunately, these are not compatible beings.

The B&W photography is superb, and there are a lot of references all along the film.

The music is strange and beautiful.

After watching it again and again and again, I am still fascinated by this film, everything is in the details, ...

Beauuuutiful!

'Dead Man'

An original and atmospheric film, gruesome and beautiful simultaneously! The music by Neil Young and the exquisite Johnny Depp combine to take ones breath away.

Not a film for the squeamish or sentimental!