Dead for a Dollar
A beautiful, elegiac work that in many ways feels like if Django Unchained was Cry Macho. <PERSON> depicts a world that is cruel, violent, misogynist, and racist, but never once at the expense of the human characters. In fact, the connections, both deliberate and serendipitous, actively create worlds that resist these cruelties. 352
Love and connection exist in spite of the structures of society. A remarkable tension is created from these competing forces; of the individual and of the group. The moments of connection are privileged above all else. Every battle and death is both startling and anticlimactic, as if the narrative itself does the work of representing the finality of death. 352