I really like Tommy Lee Jones because of Man in Black, and I see a very similar character as well in this movie.

This is a really good movie. I bursted into tears as well as laughters. I remember a movie in China some years ago, about a peasant who works in other places to earn a living, but he wants to get back to his hometown and get buried there after he dies, just like Melquiades, and the movie is detailed with how his friend manages to carry his body hundreds of miles back to home by lying all the way through, because in China, dead people must be cremated right away. It’s a comedy because of the lies his friend makes, but as well it’s very touching, about how a true friend can be.

This is a very different board area comparing to Touch of Evil. Los Robles is a small yet prosperous town due to the traffic of people and business (legal as well as illegal). Instead, what we see in “Three Burials“, I believe it’s more or less what the real situation is in the border between US and Mexico, where most of the wetbacks will choose to come illegally to the US. It’s vast and wild, but the same dangerous as Los Robles. I don’t see the blend between two cultures/people, but rather conflict and violence.

It’s movie which turn the common world up-side-down: a wetback who eagers to go back, a gringo who goes to Mexico illegally, a border patrol who is no longer the representative of the law but a prisoner and also enters Mexico illegally, and while it’s talking about the illegal immigration, it’s the other way round, from the US to Mexico. However, we know that the main theme, the hidden theme is still the wetbacks. Just this time we get to see from the opposite perspective, from the perspective of a gringo who’s friend of a wetback, of a border patrol and from the Mexican people, not from the politicians and mass media reporters.

Crossing the Southern border again changes people. Pete has got the courage to propose to Rachel, and Norton finally admit his sense of guilt. Or maybe “change” is not a correct word, because I believe Pete loves Rachel from long time ago, and Norton does feel somewhat guilty right after he killes Mel. Therefore, instead of “change”, maybe it’s better to say that crossing the border “enlarges” people’s true sentiments. So does it mean that crossing the Northern border makes people hide their feelings?