Review of The Homesman (2014) by Kevin L — 23 Oct 2015

Slow bleak and heartbreakingly tender. Hilary Swank played the saintly Mary Bee Cuddy in this period country and western drama who must suffer a life of unrequited love while caring for the outcasts of society.

No one could empathise better for the three mad women she promised to ferry to a faraway church in Iowa than Miss Cuddy herself because she too felt the pain of being unloved and unwanted. Like most of us, we don´t treasure what is wonderful in front of us until we lose it.

So it was with George Brigg (Tommy Lee Jones), a selfish army deserter, whose life he owed to his selfless benefactor Mary Bee, whom he failed and must come to grief and a lifetime of regret for rejecting the kindest and most beautiful woman in his life.

But alas, Mary Bee=s tragic departure was not in vain. After her departure, goodness in George Briggs welled up. He gallantly protected and saved the 3 helpless insane women until the end of the mission when he delivered them to the kindly Minister´s wife ( Meryl Streep).

. Mary Bee Cuddy n heaven must have smiled at that point.