The Cohen Brothers do an excellent job of rendering visible the dusty blood-caked prose of Cormac McCarthy. In the way that “Blood Meridian” felt Biblical, this felt Shakespearean. An excellent, if not uplifting nor necessarily satisfying, film.

Vive the American Dream, even when practiced in such violent climes. Excellent performances by both leading men. They reminded me a bit of The Wire and the seemingly intimate relationship developed between cops and criminals. Perhaps it stems from the shared experience of lives lived at a distance from the “normal” world.