Dead Man (1995)

Here's a link to the trailer: Dead Man Trailer

Hello Again, sorry about the belated western review. I have been rather busy the past few weekends and so I am only just now getting this new review to you and yours for your viewing pleasure.

This western is one in its own, I can't really place it in the classic western field and I can't put it in the spaghetti western genre either. It's really quite an original piece, and is very artistic and interesting.

William Blake (played by Johnny Depp) is an accountant heading for his new job in the town of Machine. He arrives at his destination to meet with his new employer John Dickinson, (played by Robert Mitchum) when he discovers that John Dickinson has already hired a new accountant and has no further use for Mr. Blake. To not give away too many details to this movie, William becomes wanted for murder and Mr. Dickinson hires a few gunman to track him down. Now William Blake is running and is wounded comes too while an native named Nobody, (played by Gary Farmer) is trying to take the bullet out of him with his knife, which for William is not too comfortable. These two become good friends along the journey that unfolds within this movie. The dialogue between the two of them is very interesting and at times funny. You soon learn to love Nobody as well as think less that William Blake is a cowardly city slicker and more of an outlaw as the story progresses further. And I will leave the rest of the plot telling to the movie itself.

Now this isn't your typical western to say the least, and if you know any of Johnny Depp's work you should have already wagered on that. You can feel its a Johnny Depp movie. It's dark, yet even so you still get that western movie feel so if you don't really like the whole Johnny Depp classic you should still enjoy this film for the simple fact that it is a western. Also this flick is not your everyday shoot em' up, run out guns a' blazin' western either, its more realistic. For example you see how savage the wild west is to someone who is not accustomed to it like a whore giving oral pleasures to a man in an alley. Yes, this movie does have some rather questionable content, but it is spread out and is not the majority of the film so it is easily ignorable. But basically to like this movie you have to have either one or both of these two characteristics, either you like Johnny Depp movies, or you like westerns. If you like neither of these fine things, you'll more than likely hate this movie all together, and not to mention it's in black and white so that would be even more of a turn off to those foolish western hating heathens.

Another essentially good thing about Dead Man is that the music is performed by none other than Neil Young. So expect to enjoy the sounds you hear along the course of the show. Its a very artsy type of film and you should be able to appreciate that considering most westerns have nothing to do with art. For example one of my favorite lines in this movie is; "That weapon will replace your tongue. You will learn to speak through it. And your poetry will now be written with blood. " Now isn't that just brutal and artistic all at once? I think so! There is also a lot of symbolism in this movie if you look for it. "This movie is not the best ever made, but it doe's have a powerful meaning as it looks into the hell that Native American's were put through. Depp is a messenger. I saw the film six months ago and felt that Depp's performance was superb. I felt that there was a powerful symbolism in the film related to our concepts of life, death, and dying."(Author: jeffreytaos from Republic of Korea, Sourced from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112817/).

Another pro for this movie is that it has a lot of very good actors in it that you may recognize from other movies, they don't all play significant roles but they are all noticeable.

Well anyways, to conclude this review I shall say this; This movie is awesomely artistic and well thought through. The plot is very original and so is the cast. It's a great western and a great Johnny Depp film!

The con's, well if you don't like Johnny Depp or westerns you'll more than likely hate it. It is dark and some people don't like realistic and cynical type westerns and prefer more uplifting ones such as flicks by John Wayne.

I give it a 4/5, I'd love to give it a 5/5 but I have to be fair because it's not a must see western. But it comes highly recommended by me, to all of my friends and to anyone interested in seeing an original newer western.

Here's the Torrent Link:Dead Man

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