After the Civil War, a third of the cowboys who kept the herds were former slaves and their descendants dreamed of a better life. A demographic reality that is hardly apparent in classic westerns.
"In these films that I adored and watched over and over as a child, women, blacks and Chinese are presented as submissive, invisible, and they take a back
seat
"
, denounces Jeymes Samuel. The British musician, little brother of the singer Seal, dynamites this narrow horizon in
The Harder They Fall
which makes cross on Netflix bandits and black vigilantes in a deluge of bullets and hip-hop hits.
This militant approach will undoubtedly attract a trial in Wokism.
However, despite a convoluted scenario that multiplies the intermediate quests, his uninhibited energy deserves more than controversy around diversity.
It dusted off the codes of the western with a beautiful savagery.
Jeymes Samuel, of which it is the first feature film, holds the bridle short to his
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