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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Hellman’s companion piece shares The Shooting’s stripped-down frontier, uneasy pursuit, and sense that violence is arbitrary, with tense encounters unfolding in a stark, unromantic landscape.
02
Why this pick
Its snowbound West replaces Hellman’s desert but keeps the same bleak fatalism, moral uncertainty, spare dialogue, and simmering threat of a Western world without dependable heroes.
03
Why this pick
A meditative revisionist Western with laconic men, haunted pasts, and an unusually patient rhythm; its dusty images and inward mood echo The Shooting’s off-center melancholy.
04
Why this pick
Altman similarly drains the Western of clean mythmaking, favoring oblique behavior, weathered textures, and a fatalistic atmosphere in which characters cannot fully control events.
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Why this pick
This is another hypnotic, minimalist journey through a hostile West, driven less by conventional action than by ambiguity, dislocation, and an increasingly dreamlike sense of doom.
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01 / THE STORY
Willet Gashade (Oates), a former bounty hunter, returns to his small mining after a lengthy absence and finds his slow-witted friend Coley (Will Hutchins) in a state of fear. Coley explains to Gashade that their partner, Leland Drum (B. J. Merholz), had been shot to death two days before by an unseen assassin. The killing was possibly committed in revenge for the accidental trampling death of "a little person" in town, which may have been caused by Gashade's brother, Coin. Coin had inexplicably rushed away from their camp moments before the shooting death. Coley becomes increasingly paranoia, and Gashade takes his friend's gun away from him.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Willett Gashade
Coley Boyard
Woman
Sheriff
Deputy
Billy Spear
