"First off, the film is beautifully shot, from the opening scene, which tracks back from a hallucinatory landscape until we see the source of a strange sound: a riffled deck of cards in a desperado's hands. And its central conceit a little girl (Emily Katherine Ford) whose touch is fatal flowers into an intriguing metaphor for the consequences of the white man's burden. Except here the girl is, initially, a black woman's burden. Formerly enslaved Sarah (DeWanda Wise) runs a homestead"
"on the edge of an Arizona town in a plague-stricken time. The already on-edge locals shun her and her daughter, even though she keeps her child's apparently deadly hands gloved. Increasingly ground down, Sarah enlists mentally shattered doctor Bender (Guy Pearce) who ethers himself to sleep every night after his own family tragedy to escort them across the wilderness to see a preacher to"
The film is beautifully shot, opening with a hallucinatory tracking shot that reveals a riffled deck of cards. A little girl whose touch is fatal becomes a metaphor for the consequences of the white man's burden, initially experienced as a black woman's burden. Formerly enslaved Sarah runs a homestead near an Arizona town during a plague, and faces shunning despite keeping her daughter's hands gloved. Sarah hires Dr Bender, a traumatized physician who sleeps by ether, to escort them across the wilderness to a preacher for exorcism. The journey centers on outcasts and odd encounters, owes influence to Dead Man, and examines white responsibility amid sporadic extreme violence.
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