A stubborn girl, recently orphaned, convinced of being right. An alcoholic sheriff who seems indifferent to live or die. A ranger ambiguous on good faith that there is no evidence.
The Coens are confronted with the myth of a myth of western and western, that determination that won him the Oscar to John Wayne and have the courage to do it without throwing it in and play without anxiety of modernization. What scene is bring in a solid film, hard and snarling like his characters, lost souls in a ruthless world in search of those flashes of light (Grace of God?) That make life worth living.
The Grit is a film that works, the less cryptic but beautiful "Serius A Man", more compact than "No Country for Old Men." However there is something missing, something intangible and yet essential, because there really be a good western. Lacks the epic. A final part of the wonderful ride, that much of the firefight, is the true climax of the film, the characters speak (much), they fight, suffer and die without breathing the smell of the epic. I have no recipes, obviously, to indicate what and where you need to add in order to integrate the film with this ingredient. What is certain is that we have seen stories even dirtier and disenchanted (just to stay in the Western mind, for instance Unforgiven), which did you feel the epic dimension of the protagonists. This is not the case, and if they miss.
Score: 8 -
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