Hell Or High Water (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #34 extract: Hell Or High Water (2016)

Hell or High Water is a strong realist neo-western that, as almost all westerns do, deals with change; a change in the land and a refusal to change in some of its people. 

Given life by a subdued exploration of good an evil (another inherent aspect of the western) and a set of crisply written characters, Hell or High Water is silky smooth; it understands its genre, and enough to approach it quietly and humbly - much like No Country For Old Men did. There is a then a brilliant sense of harmony in this picture. Whilst we've all seen versions of this film, its intuition, morality and narrative structure are timeless and ever-pertinent. After all, times are always a changin. A brilliant film. 

If you, like me, missed this last year, don't let it slip by completely.