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From: blp
Category: Films
Date: 21 February 2006
It's not like Five Easy Pieces, except that it is also a product of the 'new' Hollywood. It has a lot of Robert Altman tropes, e.g. overlapping dialogue and no pure, morally lilly-white heroes, but lots of wry ordinary joes, a few dim innocents careening towards corruption and some likeably amoral types, as well as some overt bad guy corporate killers. And it's all set in a snowbound Midwestern outpost in the nineteenth century when railroads were resulting in town erupting like zits on a teenager, with, according to the thesis of the film, about as much blood, irritability and puss. But I prefer other Altman films like Nashville, The Long Goodbye and A Wedding.
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