I shouldn't be doing this because I have promised myself to only write about sensible stuff from now on. But I can't help it. After re-watching it yesterday, I can't seem to get 3:10 to Yuma out of my mind, and heart too. If you have fallen inlove before, you would certainly understand me. It's awesome and fucking beautiful. And it's my new favorite (But there's still There Will Be Blood).
The movie evolved with Dan Evans (Christian Bale), a struggling farmer who will be forced to leave his house and land if he will not be able to pay his debt (with this guy whose name I have forgotten), and the outlaw Ben Wade (Russel Crowe), who is referred as boss by his men and who needed to be taken to Yuma to be trialled and hanged. Dan, desperate to fight for what is due for him and for his wife and two sons, volunteered to accompany the other guys (don't mind them; watch the movie to get to know them better) to get Ben to a 3:10 to Yuma train for $200. That evening, the group had supper in Dan's house, where Ben met Dan's family. Later that night Dan's older son Will (Logan Lerman) followed the guys to where they were heading, despite his father's will not to. Along the way, lives have been lost and characters have been unfolded. Ben has been persuading Dan to set him free for a $1000, a larger amount than what was offered to Dan for taking him to the train station. Dan, being a man he is, decent and principled, refused the offer, though you can tell he was thinking about it. Along the way, respect has been earned (this applies to all). In an unfortunate event, Ben's men were able to follow Dan's pack in the town where they stayed for awhile, waiting for the train to arrive. Now, these men, Ben's men, were like animals. They were ready to kill and die whenever necessary, especially for their boss. Ben warned Dan about this. Dan was very firm with his decision to get Ben on the train, that he was still willing to do it inspite being offered by the man who will be paying him for this job even if he decides to walk away, and even if his son persuaded him that it was the safest choice he needed to choose. So came the time when the 3:10 to Yuma train arrived. Bullets and blood flooded, lives ended and respect, once again, was earned.
Writing on how the story ended would just spoil the whole essence of the movie and may just take away your want to see it, so I'll not go there. Rest assured that it ended beautifully.
What I like about this movie is that fact that it made me appreciate its genre, which normally I wouldn't like. I also admired how the movie depicts the idea that inspite of the world's harshness, one can still live as a better person and respectable life and that there's goodness in each and everyone of us, whether you're a criminal or a saint. It's unfortunate though that our being bad, most of the time, overshadows that goodness in us.
And sometimes, we really have to know the person to really know him/her. First impression doesn't work all the time.
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