Review of True Grit (2010) by Joey W — 14 Mar 2016

True Grit is what I would consider one of the few golden remakes of (in my opinion) a campy hollywood film. Although the original True Grit shows a simple, hollywood-ized film of a goofy man in a dopy eyepatch, the remake shows us a.

... Truly Gritty american story of a man hardened by the frontier and a child hell bent on revenge. The use of scene and silence in this film shows the true loneliness and absolute obscurity that these characters live in, every scene seems unforced, as though we the viewer, have simply been dropped into this living, breathing world that has its own pace and tempo.

Entire scenes seem to exist outside of the viewer, and even outside of the characters, as though we happened in on part of a much larger world, giving a very real sense of the life around them. The use of proper grammar takes what would have been nothing but pure dirt digging badassery, and turns it into a shakespearean play, the narrations flowing like beautiful poems, playing over images of the true west; unforgiving, hard, and quite gritty (as the name would imply).

This is only further reinforced by the top tier performance of every actor in this film. I would strongly recommend this film to anyone who is into Quentin Tarantino films, as many of the scenes are driven by speech.

However, it certianly does not skimp on the action. This film still remains one of my favorite westerns.