Notes on…

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs(2018)

Dir. Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen


Many have suggested that the Coens “know what they’re doing” w/r/t their depiction of Indigenous peoples. If this is the case, then... what are they doing? And why? And how is it different than if they didn’t “know”?

Will Sloan

Synopsis: 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.