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A film Review: Dead Man

A film Review: Dead Man

Dead man is a production of Miramax Company in 1995 in the United States which won 2 awards. It is released on May 1996 as black white 121-min film .Director and screenwriter of this movie is Jim Jarmusch who won 22 awards for his movies. MPAA rating is R because of depiction of murder and rape scenes. Its genre is Drama/Western. Main cast are  popular and

 well-known Hollywood actor, Johnny Depp as William Blake, Gary Farmer

as Nobody, and Robert Mitchum as John Dickenson, Lance Henrikson as

Cole Wilson and Mili Avital as Thel. Music is done by Neil Young who is

 one of the best rock/folk guitarists. This story had taken place in the 2^nd

 half of the 19th century, in the western frontiers of America.

Dead man is a story of young man who has lost his parents and has left

Cleveland (his hometown) to get a job as an accountant in town of machine,

 in Dickenson Company. But he arrives late, and another person has been

replaced. Very lonely and hapless, Blake goes to a bar and get familiar with

a young woman (Thel) who is apparently a prostitute. He spends the night in

 her room which is full of paper flowers. Suddenly his former fiancé, who is

 son of Dickenson, arrives and try to kill Blake but kills Thel and with

 another bullet makes a whole in Blake’s chest. Now Blake is badly

 wounded, killed the guy and is running away. Lost in Western territories, he encounters a very strange Native American, named “Nobody”. From now

on, his physical and spiritual journey starts. Nobody supposes that William

Blake is a dead English poet. Against Blake’s nature conditions through this

 journey transfers him to a murderer. As “Nobody” is interested in William

 Blake the English poet, and thinks that is a spirit of Blake, he tries to return

 him to the land of spirit, where Blake can live in everlasting peace. At the

end when Blake is going through the river, lying in a canoe and passing his

last moments of his life, sees the last scene. Nobody is killed by one of the

Dickenson’s hunter men.

This movie refers to the 19^thcentury, which America put westward

movements in to practice by killing and exiling Indians from their lands.

People who migrated to the west have very abnormal and nasty life with

very bad economical condition. In contrast with easterners which Blake is a

 representative of, westerners are so impolite so savage and cruel. That is

 why Blake can not adapt himself with such a society. He is such an urban

man who even speaks differently, who wears suit with neat and stylish hair,

 wearing glasses and interestingly never smoke. Actually he arrives in town

of hell rather than town of machine. Next important character is” Nobody”

 who is an indication that Indians were ignored by whites. He is a type of

kind man, with his own believes, who wants to help William Blake take back peace which “Nobody” himself couldn’t gain it in his life the black white scenes represent soulless atmosphere of the era. No communication,

 no affection and no devotion exist between western inhabitants. . Generally you can feel desolation, uncertainty, lack of spirituality, cruelty and

 instability through whole of the film, which I personally think is an exact picture of the society.   

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