Films about the Wild West have already produced some charismatic gunslingers and sensitive chieftains. In Enemies – Hostiles, Scott Cooper avoids romanticized depictions and heroic figures. He shows complex characterswho are out in their world Violence and hatred are trapped and yet have to stick together. With your community rating, you vote for the Western as the 9th best Western of the last decade.
The film, released in 2017, is available on Blu-ray * and DVD *, but the best version available is this 2-Disc Edition in 4K and Blu-ray *. Alternatively, Amazon Prime * offers the Western for purchase and rental.
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That’s what the emotional Western Enemies – Hostiles is about
The hardened Captain Blocker (Christian Bale) has killed many people in his life and makes no secret of his actions Hatred towards the native people. Of all people, he is now supposed to accompany a dying war chief (Wes Studi) and his family safely back to their tribal area.
On the long journey from New Mexico to Montana they meet a widow (Rosamund Pike). Family murdered by the Comanches and who joins the squad. The disparate group is forced to come together because it’s not just them Nature is unyieldingthey also have to travel through the hunting grounds of a hostile tribe.
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Enemies – Hostiles
Enemies – Hostiles an emotional western without heroes
Hostiles focuses on the representation of good and evil and one idealized depiction of the Wild Westt. In his film review on epd film, Patrick Seyboth positively points out that the Native Americans are not romanticized, because the now small Comanche tribe also makes a name for themselves Killing of women and children no stop.
But Hostiles also shows clearly that the foundation of violence comes from the racist white people and whose ruthless appropriation was laid. So ultimately all the characters are losers. “It’s precisely because the production is characterized by elegiac calm that it works Incursions of violence are all the more brutal and more pointless.”
The western was also reviewed very positively on FILMSTARTS with the rating “excellent”. There it says:
Scott Cooper’s brilliantly atmospheric western drama Enemies – Hostiles develops as it goes on emotional primal forcewhich you can’t escape – just like Christian Bale’s impressive slow-burner performance
It’s not just Bale, Studi and Pike who convince with their portrayal of characters who are broken by violence, but at the same time in it Perpetrator role and caught in hatred are. Also lend in the supporting roles top-class actors like Timothée Chalamet, Jesse Plemons and Q’Orianka Kilcher give their characters depth.
In the high-resolution home cinema version of Enemies – Hostiles there is also an approximately 76 minutes of bonus material which includes interviews with cast and crew as well as the documentary A Journey of the Soul: The Making of Hostiles.
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