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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Comedy, Drama, Western
Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling performers, a lone gold prospector, a woman traveling the West to an uncertain future, and a motley crew of strangers undertaking a carriage ride.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy mordant frontier storytelling, shifting tones, and sharply composed vignettes that find absurdity and fatalism in human behavior.
- Tone
- darkly comic, bleak, satirical
- Payoff
- amusement, reflection
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- anthology
- Themes
- mortality, violence, fate, frontier life, human folly
- Setting
- post-Civil War American West, frontier towns, wilderness and stagecoach routes
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