Director: John Ford
This is a trite observation, but one thing that Westerns such as The Searchers succeed at is presenting things with moral clarity. They can present situations that you or I would never get into as moral questions - what would you do, if faced with this decision? I think it's one reason I don't care that much for Westerns - I'm too larded down by society to ever think I could get into one of these moral situations. So many niggling factors come into the decisions we make now; someone of Ethan Edwards' moral framework not only seems like he's from another time (because he is), but perhaps even another species. However, the moral decisions he makes are still of vital importance, decisions we will be considering long after we've forgotten about the worthless subplots in this film.
Wayne's Ethan Edwards is a classic film character - knowledgeable, contemptuous, quick to anger, and mysterious.
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