How many different ways is there to say the same thing? Yes, life was tough for women in the old West, but it wasn't all smiles and sunshine for men either. The Homesman doesn't feel that it's quite enough to tell you how it tough it was for women, it instead beats you over the head with the message for two long hours.
When Hilary Swank isn't proving that women are as good as men by taking matters into her own hands, the viewer is subjected to mentally ill women screaming, biting and kicking each other in the face after their respective breakdowns.
Since this has been lauded as 'progressive' by the critics, and that word seems to hold more sway than whether the film is actually any good or not, I expect more miserable feminist revisionist Westerns to come. Unfortunately.
When Hilary Swank isn't proving that women are as good as men by taking matters into her own hands, the viewer is subjected to mentally ill women screaming, biting and kicking each other in the face after their respective breakdowns.
Since this has been lauded as 'progressive' by the critics, and that word seems to hold more sway than whether the film is actually any good or not, I expect more miserable feminist revisionist Westerns to come. Unfortunately.