Westerns, Old & New

摘要

Troy Falconer is a professional reprobate, driven to anonymity in order to conceal his ongoing lifestyle of motel break-ins and car thefts. Never owning anything, Troy has managed to stay inconspicuous his entire life by subsisting on an uncanny ability to take his livelihood from others. When a potential inheritance lures Troy back to his home town and his estranged brother, Harlan, his way of life and his confidence in it is threatened. In this Western set in the 1970s Texas flat lands, the town of Presidio is populated with Mexicans, Low German Mennonites, and native Texans-all attempting to gain some kind of control over their chaotic lives. VERDICT Kennedy {Kingdom of Invaders; Subwayland) creates a reality that blows desert dust into the eyes and cheap motel musk into the nostrils, successfully capturing the intertwining lives of sad sacks who are painfully and at times comically doomed. Those who enjoy classic Western "drifter dramas" will be sinfully satisfied.