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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a meditation on death that plays like a series of late-night yarns. What choice does he have? What choice do any of us have? The last to go in is the gambler, who pauses at the door with a foreboding look before shrugging and accepting his fate. When the coach finally arrives at its destination, the three passengers reluctantly enter the mysterious hotel. And we love hearing those stories because the people in them are us, but not us. They have told us stories, both in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and throughout their careers, about the funny, sad and often tragic lives of others. My reading of this segment is that the bounty hunters - the harvesters of souls - are the Coen Brothers themselves. But with the dawn I wake and yawn and carry on. The nights are cool and Im a fool, each stars a pool of water.
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Not us at the end, especially - the Midnight Caller gets him, never me… I’ll live forever…” Dan can you see that big green tree Where the waters running free and its waiting there for you and me. So long as the people in the story are - us, but not us. He goes on, “Because they connect the stories to themselves, I suppose, and we all love hearing about ourselves, over and over. “Someone is outside! Knocking! Oh who can it be! Don’t open it, Mother - what living thing would be out in such a storm! You know the story, but people can’t get enough of them, the familiar stories, like little children.” Then his partner, the Englishman, launches into a monologue about his method of mesmerizing people with the story of the Midnight Caller before his partner “thumps” them: ‘The Unfortunate Lad’ was the inspiration for ‘The Streets of Laredo,’ a cowboy’s lament that might have been sung by Buster Scruggs himself. The passengers realize where they’re headed when the Irishman, played beautifully by the great Brendan Gleeson, sings a mournful Irish ballad about a dying man. Is it purgatory? Merely a stopover before you move on to Heaven or Hell? Or is it the final destination? The film doesn’t say.
That place is a hotel called Fort Morgan with carvings framing its entrance of an angel and a goat. It doesn’t matter that the trapper believes people are “like ferrets,” essentially all the same, or the gambler believes every human being is knowable only to himself, or the religious lady believes humans are separated into the “upright” and the “sinning.” They are all going to the same place.
The stagecoach is crossing a metaphorical river Styx. The bounty hunters are escorting the other three to their final resting place. Each offers a monologue on, essentially, the meaning of life.Īs the mood turns somber and the sun sets, changing the lighting from a warm gold to a cool blue, it becomes pretty clear what’s really going on here. Two of the passengers, the Englishman and the Irishman, are revealed to be bounty hunters (or “harvesters of souls,” as they put it) while the other three are a trapper, a gambler and an upright religious sort. ‘The Mortal Remains’ depicts a quintet of passengers riding in a stagecoach to a mysterious hotel. The final segment of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, to paraphrase Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski, really ties the film together.
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