The Great Silence

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Tim M An all-timer for the spaghetti Western subgenre, The Great Silence will leave you speechless with its bold storytelling and bleakly beautiful cinematography. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/25 Full Review John H Very good hidden spaghetti western. Very good story and action. It does have subtitles but easy to follow the action Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/02/24 Full Review Rylen P The best western ever made Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/15/23 Full Review Larry M Tarantino pretty much honed the scope with "The Hateful Eight". He took "The Great Silence" as a foundation and built on it. Developed his movie around filling gaps in the original storyline and dialogue. Draws it out further and it works. Corbucci uses Kinski effectively and Kinski reminds you beauty can be evil. He lets you know he's better than you. He tells you he doesn't care. When Kinski touches the fake spiderwebs when he's locked up, it's terrific! Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 10/13/23 Full Review Roy V It would seem that Italian directors understood the genre of the western as its viewed through a dirty lens. Sergio corbucci delivered the cold brutal aspects of the law. What a beautifully shot film! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 04/20/23 Full Review Wayne K The name Sergio Corbucci might not be instantly familiar to you. If you mention a director called Sergio I'll assume you mean Sergio Leone. Corbucci's most famous film, arguably, would be 1966's Django starring Franco Nero, but The Great Silence is, again arguably, his most acclaimed. A Spaghetti Western set in the snowy hills of Utah, it's a steadily paced, bloody and brutal tale of revenge and corruption in a time and place where the legal limits of the law were as blurry as they could possibly be. If you were in any position of power, getting rid of someone you didn't like was as easy as placing a bounty on their head, and that's what happens to most of the movie's victims, of which there are a fair few. I liked how unglamorous the movie was, how it didn't sugar-coat the ugly abuses of power that the law utilised in the name of justice, and how difficult it was to define who was good and who was evil. For me, moral ambiguity is a sure-fire way to make a character engaging, and if it's done right, it can make a movie work all on its own. We follow the characters of Silence and Loco, and yes, those are their actual names, as their paths slowly begin to converge at a time when the word ‘draw!' was often the last thing you heard. I was especially impressed with the ending, which is incredibly bleak and downbeat, but that perfectly matches the overall tone of the film. If there's one thing I can't stand its tacked on, out of place happy endings that are completely unearned, just so the audiences can go home smiling. If a downer ending works, then use it! If you decide to watch it, don't expect an action movie. Expect a slow burn, character driven revisionist western that takes it's time in getting to the violent parts and makes you feel how important they are. If this sounds like your thing, then give it a try. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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