western par excellence, glorifying western expansions, praise the opportunities for democratic life on the frontier, ambivalence about civilization, inherent unfairness of prejudging individuals, assumed exclusion of ethnic others, visual style dramatizes social prejudice, Ringo/Wayne as the true, native, and natural American democratic idol
覺得很有意思的一點(diǎn)在于男主在流落孤島之前說We live and we die by time, and we must not commit the sin of turning our back on time.可是在孤島時(shí)間反而是最不重要的現(xiàn)代的時(shí)間與前現(xiàn)代的時(shí)間的不期而遇