Western And The Youth Of Today
Down in the Valley is a movie that features Edward Norton, Evan Rachel Wood, David Morse and Rory Culkin.The story is about a romance between a teenage girl and a thirty-something drifter that takes the young woman down a dangerous and unexpected path in this independent drama.It was written and directed by David Jacobson.Tobe is a pretty 18-year-old whose father, Wade, is the sheriff of a town in California's San Fernando Valley. She is driving to the beach with some friends when she stops at a filling station and meets gas jockey Harlan, who dresses like a cowpoke and claims to have recently relocated to Los Angeles from South Dakota. Harlan is immediately and obviously taken by him, and when she asks him to tag along for the day, he impulsively quits his job to follow her. They soon become a couple, but Wade is convinced Harlan is not all he claims to be, and Tobe begins to wonder if her father might be right when Harlan takes her horseback riding and their date is cut short after police inform them the horses have been stolen from an rancher whom Harlan claims is a friend - and who promptly turns up with a gun to confront both of them, insisting that he has never seen Harlan before. Tobe's suspicions grow when Harlan offers to teach her little brother, Lonnie , how to shoot using a pair of real .45 revolvers, as his actions become less charming and more worrisome.
This film examines the life and death of the western and its incompatibility with the youth of today.Also,it is a tale that is wholly original and deeply prescient about the darker shoals of human nature and it also has the values of past and present collide and it reexamines the American Dream.Overall,it still's one of the most original movies in a long time.
score 10/10
Desertman84 23 September 2012
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