04 April 2011

True Grit


True Grit is certainly not one of the best Coen-films and it's a very conventional western in many ways, not least when it comes to the script.

A young woman - Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) hires a US marshall - Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) to track down the man who killed her father - Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin) - but a Texas Ranger - LaBoeuf (Matt Damon) also follows them in their quest, as the same man is wanted for a killing in Texas.
Steinfelds young woman is maybe the most interesting character in the film as she - in spite of her youth and being a young woman at the time - is very independant and knows exactly what she wants and what to pay for it.

Otherwise the photo is good, sometimes quite interesting and the dialogue is very 'non-western-like', meaning that the use of swearwords or abbreviations when talking are rare, instead the language used, ressembles more a theatrical way of talking then the usual 'western'-jargon.
A professionally made film as often when we talk about American productions but not at all a film that will revolutionize the style and language of film making - or westerns.

It's not a film I long to see again and neither do Aurore I think.

No comments: