HIGH NOON

I'm not really into westerns, never have been, probably never will be. I think they're a bit too American for me. I felt as if the story plot was kind of typical and only bordered slightly on interesting. In this film Will goes around the little down he lives in trying to find help to ward off Kane and his gang of bandits. No one helps. For the whole movie you're stuck assuming he's screwed, four to one, he's dead for sure. But in the back of my little mind I had a feeling that all those people would pity him and help him defeat the people who previously made their lives so fearful. I was so sure that they would come to the rescue. But contrary to my belief they didn't. I was shocked at that, I really was. But he survived and his new wife Amy, the pacifist, helped him. She saved the day more than Will did, he just had the courage to get to the place where she could do what she had to. Once learning of all the parallels to society and the political scene of the 1950s, the actions of Will and all the town people seemed kind of sensible, not what I assumed, but sensible. All in all, I would've never watched this on my own, but I still did kind of enjoy it. There were a lot of aspects of the film that were a surprise to me. For example the lack of majestic beauty that is sometimes associated with western film.