Rust 4K 2024

In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, there was a lack of social protection for children and an imperfect legislative system for minors in the United States. A wandering bounty hunter. A few words about racial prejudice and Native Americans. The work of law enforcement officers in the past.

The plot follows two children living alone, without parents (we learn about their story and some other relatives a little later). And then something happens. The court decides to do something terrible to the older brother. But someone appears who changes the situation. And a chase begins for him and the boy.

If you cut out the not-so-good scenes, it's a pretty good movie, maybe. After all, we are in the United States, in some wild places almost 20 years after the local Civil War. We mention God a little, we see a lot of steppes and even mountains in the background. Sometimes someone shoots at someone or fists fly. Someone dies. We wander into seedy establishments.

Sometimes it all looks like some kind of open-world computer game. There's a town there. Here too. Somewhere there is just a house or a hut standing alone. We ride a horse, meet someone, carry out missions on behalf of different heroes: rescue someone from prison, arrest bandits, buy something in a store, visit a saloon, catch fugitives. We restore our health in a brothel or with a random woman, sit by the fire and listen to stories of the past, watch someone's execution, dreaming of not ending up in the hanged man's place.

Along the way, we meet amusing characters with whom we exchange short sentences, some of whom we send to their eternal rest afterwards. At the same time, it seems that there is simply no coherent plot... But maybe it's not needed. These are separate scenes that are somehow poorly or... connected.

The film tries to be as serious as possible, although some scenes seem like caricatures of the Wild West. But I will note that the film sometimes tries to be funny, that is, jokes do slip in, but only briefly.