The Big Picture Gone are the days of the unshakable cowboys like John Wayne. In their place has arrived a more updated and nuanced Western character that is emotional and self-reflective. Enter Scott Cooper’s neo-western drama Hostiles. If any Western film takes on mental illness and the nature of war’s consequences on men, it’s this one.
Hostiles RDramaHistoryWestern In 1892, a legendary Army Captain reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory. Sgt. Metz makes several indications that he is suffering from PTSD due to his time in the various conflicts he was a part of. He has a callousness towards violence and is depicted discussing graphic details with little emotion. He talks of trouble sleeping from nightmares, and a general sense of being out of place and lost. He also carries around some immense guilt from some of the things he had done previous to when we meet him.
With Blocker, the grief and depression he experiences are more compounded and repressed. These states arise most prominently when he finds Sgt. Metz after his suicide. Blocker is constantly trying to come up with justifications for what he did during his service in the military, never giving himself a moment to fully grasp the emotions surrounding it. All the vague yet horrendous acts that other characters refer to are simply part of the job for Blocker, or at least that’s what he says.
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