In an earlier post on westerns we said in regards to The Good, the Bad and Ugly that, 'We don't get it'.
We take it back.
We do get it.
You have Tuco (the Ugly), Angel Eyes (the Bad) and Blondie (the Good) vying for $200,000 big ones buried in a Confederate Cemetery.
Along the way everyone they encounter they kill.
This happens amidst the carnage of the Civil War. When this unholy trinity is not shooting people they are running into the war. Here they meet Confederate soldiers virtually abandoned by their government, Confederate POWs being mistreated by their Union captors, and finally a Union army kept in the field by the promise of alcohol.
Honestly its hard not to root for Tuco. He seems nice enough and has some sort of code. He crosses himself with each death. He's an honest thief.
The movie is long, it is slow and it is not pretty to look at. The overdubbing is horrible.
Throughout director Sergio Leone seems to be asking us to ponder one question: whose worse, the good, the bad and the ugly, or the soldiers slaughtering one another?
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