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While struggling to watch this very poor start to a proposed tetralogy, I was reminded of three movies: Star Wars, Australia, and How the West Was Won. The first two, because they were stinkers in their original forms that had to be dramatically re-edited to save them. In the case of Star Wars, that happened before we saw the original release. In Australia's case, it happened years after the original film bombed and Luhrman re-cut his film as a much better miniseries called FarAway Downs.
That needs to happen with this mess of a disjointed pastiche of under-explained, unconnected characters, plots and places. It needs re-editing and (dare I say it) a VOICE OVER ADDED so that we can get what the hell is going on. How the West was Won tells an equally sweeping saga, in long form, with loosely connected characters and it has a voice-over which seems old-timey to our ears. But we at least know what's going on in that film. Not so in this one.
From the start, nothing is introduced or explained. No characters are named, they come and go, live and die without introduction or backstory. We are told that the town of Horizon (fiction?) is set in the San Pedro Valley (is that also fiction? Turns out no, it's real) early settlers are attacked by unamed indians. We don't find out that they are Apaches and that this setting is Arizona until about 45 minutes later. We see a unnamed young woman run away from an abusive husband/father/boyfriend in the dark, we can barely make out who the actress is. Later on another unnamed young woman turns up in Wyoming, we don't know who she is, but shes the gal being chased by her husbands sons so she must be the first woman.
This sort of thing happens repeatedly. We don't know who these unnamed characters are, where they are, or how they will be connected. The editing keeps jumping between them, even when they don't need to. Such as the scene where we're watching Jena Malone in Wyoming, the scene cuts quickly to Sienna Miller in Arizona killing a scorpion, and cuts back to Jena Malone in Wyoming. All without explication. Why? What was so important about that scorpion? Turns out it wasn't.
There is nothing wrong with the acting in this movie. The cinematography is great, the music is fine, the costumes and set decoration is top notch. The woeful flaws of the film can all be tracked back to Editing, Script, and Narrative Storytelling.... all three directly under the thumb of Kevin Costner.
Make no mistake, ignore the good reviews, this is a disaster of movie and it will flop at the Box Office. I don't episode 2 will be released theatrically or that episodes 3 and 4 will ever be shot.
That needs to happen with this mess of a disjointed pastiche of under-explained, unconnected characters, plots and places. It needs re-editing and (dare I say it) a VOICE OVER ADDED so that we can get what the hell is going on. How the West was Won tells an equally sweeping saga, in long form, with loosely connected characters and it has a voice-over which seems old-timey to our ears. But we at least know what's going on in that film. Not so in this one.
From the start, nothing is introduced or explained. No characters are named, they come and go, live and die without introduction or backstory. We are told that the town of Horizon (fiction?) is set in the San Pedro Valley (is that also fiction? Turns out no, it's real) early settlers are attacked by unamed indians. We don't find out that they are Apaches and that this setting is Arizona until about 45 minutes later. We see a unnamed young woman run away from an abusive husband/father/boyfriend in the dark, we can barely make out who the actress is. Later on another unnamed young woman turns up in Wyoming, we don't know who she is, but shes the gal being chased by her husbands sons so she must be the first woman.
This sort of thing happens repeatedly. We don't know who these unnamed characters are, where they are, or how they will be connected. The editing keeps jumping between them, even when they don't need to. Such as the scene where we're watching Jena Malone in Wyoming, the scene cuts quickly to Sienna Miller in Arizona killing a scorpion, and cuts back to Jena Malone in Wyoming. All without explication. Why? What was so important about that scorpion? Turns out it wasn't.
There is nothing wrong with the acting in this movie. The cinematography is great, the music is fine, the costumes and set decoration is top notch. The woeful flaws of the film can all be tracked back to Editing, Script, and Narrative Storytelling.... all three directly under the thumb of Kevin Costner.
Make no mistake, ignore the good reviews, this is a disaster of movie and it will flop at the Box Office. I don't episode 2 will be released theatrically or that episodes 3 and 4 will ever be shot.
In absolute. I'm stating right here and now that this is the best single episode of any tv series or miniseries this year. JLCurtis is a lock for a guest star Emmy in addition to her Oscar. When attempting to describe this episode words like unrelenting, powerful, shocking come to mind it is a rollercoaster ride that just keeps going up and up and up until you can't take it any more.
I don't know how this was written or when, but I'm guessing it was the nucleus idea of the whole show. I can't say enough good about it. I will say that sitting down to the Berzatto Family Christmas reminds me of those beach goers who watch the water mysteriously recede from the beach just before a tidal wave. They know what's going to happen, but they can't tear their eyes away.
I don't know how this was written or when, but I'm guessing it was the nucleus idea of the whole show. I can't say enough good about it. I will say that sitting down to the Berzatto Family Christmas reminds me of those beach goers who watch the water mysteriously recede from the beach just before a tidal wave. They know what's going to happen, but they can't tear their eyes away.
