Deadwood "A Rich Find" Review (3x06)
Aug 3, 2016 11:08:06 GMT -5
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Post by Pear on Aug 3, 2016 11:08:06 GMT -5
“People are fucking people, and that is fucked up!”
I doubt there’s a quote out there that sums up the human race better than this one does. This is why we have problems: because people are people and they fuck everything up. It’s exactly why so much conflict is brewing in the camp, so much push and pull between opposing forces that are both external and internal. There’s obviously Hearst vs. Al, but that central conflict branches out into many different locations: Aunt Lou trying to keep her son away from Hearst, Alma back on drugs, Bullock and his short temper, etc. However, that push and pull isn’t all bad, as people being people can also result in moments of humanity that help keep everything from going to shit right away.
For instance, Aunt Lou runs after Odell at the end because she cares about him and doesn’t want him to be in danger. Alma may be back on drugs, but people around her–for various reasons–are trying to help her move away from that habit. Joanie’s been struggling with depression throughout the season, but the last image of the episode is of her helping a drunk Jane along. Bullock ignited a mini explosion in the last episode, but Al’s keeping him from being unleashed. “Believe me, even now in the forest, the blade would be between my teeth, me and you making our way stealthily forward,” he tells Bullock in response to the suggestion to deliver the first blow. “And as to us and him, if blood’s what it finally comes to, 100 years from now, the forest is what they’ll find here. Dewy morning’s lost its appeal for me.” Here we see the push and pull being savagery and civilization, and we see that Hearst is the regressive catalyst in the camp right now; of course, people will be people and people can be animals, and the fact that he’s so powerful is in part a reflection of where the camp used to be.
He’s still like nothing they’ve seen before, and the shot of him staring out at the town after saying that he’s “taking measures to bring it down” is very ominous. The way he says it is so interesting as well; “this place displeases me” precedes the above quote. He seems like a guy who gets mildly annoyed because the store doesn’t have the size he wants, then torches the place and kills the workers’ families. What a spoiled brat. It’s too bad everyone is scared of him.
GRADE: B+
OTHER THOUGHTS:
-Cocksucker count: 5
Total cocksucker count: 259
– “Seeing a light go out of their eyes.” “In the one you had left in its socket.”
– “Go ahead and do somersaults or peel bananas with each other for all I give a fuck. The whole place has gone to shit anyhow.”
-The Merrick-Blazanov scene is excellent, and it features one of my favorite quotes of the series thus far: “We are swept up, are we not, by the large events and forces of our times?” This is the series in a nutshell: people being people, swept into history’s current and figuring out the best way to live.