Slow West (2015) - You Seen it?

★★★☆☆

‘Slow West’ is a short love tragedy disguising as one of those adventurous western films, yet the most enchanted one I’ve seen in years. The cinematography of the film is so damn superb that at certain points you seem not to care about the story anymore that is non-linearly told but not truly engrossing after all! Michael Fassbender is certainly the star of the show. I don’t know if it’s just me but I’ve never seen him this charismatic before, and the whole film is like an infinite show-off of beautiful shots of sexy evil-minded figures in breathtaking landscapes. Never knew before that the west could be so dangerously tempting!

What happens between Jay and Rose in the film reminds me of what the Buddha says about love that’s in fact like tasting honey on a blade. It’s sweet but it hurts and makes you bleed at the same time. It’s like two sides of a coin. We should be ready to take it both when it happens, but the thing is, we all tend to accept only the sweet half of it. When it makes us bleed inevitably, we act like we don’t deserve it. Love’s complete and whole as always. It’s us who can’t see it anyways! But Jay does in the end. I think so!