With the controversy surrounding the US-Mexico border including illegal immigration and border enforcement especially in the 21st century, the film handles this theme and dynamic. Lacking any support toward the potential cover-up he goes through with a long journey to Estrada’s hometown to honor his death while holding the killer hostage. Even after he initially informs the sheriff who disregards the case as near impossible to investigate because it involves the mistake of a Border Patrol. Pete who aims to seek justice for his friend’s murder goes to great lengths to kidnap Norton and make him redeem himself. JusticeĪs much as the film is about the burial of Estrada the main motif is the quest for justice for his wrongful death. The actions of Pete, Estrada’s friend, at ensuring this and the action of other characters revolve around this death.
The subsequent events are the discovery of the body from the first burial site, to a second burial and later an exhumation and then lastly a final burial. Melquiades Estrada is murdered by mistake by Norton, a Border Patrol Officer at the beginning. As the title also suggests it is the attempt or rather the challenge at ensuring the proper burial of the titular character. The film’s theme of death draws from narratives such as As I Lay Dying, in that it chronicles the pursuits of offering a proper committal to the deceased. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. I congratulate Tommy Lee Jones, for he has created a modern quiet masterpiece.These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. Along with Eastwood's Unforgiven and Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain, the West has moved into the sunset that the early films were anticipating. In Pete Perkins' care of the decaying body of Melquiades we find more respect for human beings than in any real life characters. And the notion that a man like Pete Perkins has long disapeared from the face of the earth, says so much about how a society has lost touch with humanity. The quiet acting, the vistas, the rights and wrongs. The way this movie is structured, in fragments, that come and go according to the characters feelings and ethics is keeps the storyline original. And the notion that a man It is so sad when a Wonderful film passes by almost unnoticed. It is so sad when a Wonderful film passes by almost unnoticed.
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