Oddness. Limited budget combined with exquisite handling. Noted for its realism but actually highly stylized; The carnival, the shooting competition, the long shot, the hovel in Montana, the duck blind. The lanky Dall with the big grin, Cummins showing her shape in the tight cowgirl outfit. The unrealness, the crazy danger of there first filtration/shooting contest. Nedrick Young's glasses. Ruby and the kids in the little house by the rail yard. Two generations of Sheriffs Boston.
A moralizing beginning, like out of Reefer Madness. Obsession. Guns; phallic. Exile and return. Mad love; like Bonnie and Clyde racing around the country. Banks and meat packing plants. A couple as viewed from the backseat. Contradiction. She'll kill in a panic while he's blocked from shooting any living thing. They're bound together, a mutual detour. It circles back home and to the mountains. What is the moral? Does it need one? Grade: B
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