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Written by Daniel Swain
Monday, 25 April 2011 15:02 |
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True Grit
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Film
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Westerns are always popular. They present a very transient and temporary lost world, whose existence often frightens us, because for a very short time, the boundaries of civilisation were the closest they ever came to savagery. Conceptual history lesson over, the Coen brothers' latest effort to drag the hitherto campy western genre kicking and screaming in the gritty twenty-first century world of cinema is an undeniable success.
The story comes from a novel of the same name by Charles Portis and tells the tale of Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld), a fourteen-year-old girl of mature intelligence and stubbornness who seeks retribution from her father’s killer, Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin). With the assistance of Texas Ranger LaBoeuf (Matt Damon) and renegade US Marshall Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges), she sets out on her quest across a late nineteenth century Indian Territory in the state of Arkansas.
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