Dominik's best film.

Pitt's best performance.

Deakins' best work.

Affleck's perfect performance. That is not an exaggeration. Perfection is the only word for what he achieves here.

Made me forget, again, that I really don't like the western genre.

Legend was he could stop a train by staring it down.

The villain dies a villain's death, the coward, however, goes out alone. These golden wheat fields that never fail to make me somewhat religious reminds me of Malick's Days of Heaven, upped to a whole new level with the addition of Roger Deakins, being a ~ godsend ~ as always, stops at nothing to craft heart-stopping sequences like the opening train robbery. (Train emerging from darkness, light illuminating masked figures in the woods, Deakin's spell casted on every frame.) Brad Pitt is as menacing as Daniel Plainview, his presence is a continuous jump scare, adjusts his mask like a true fashion model, every close up of him is an ad for Prada or some other capitalist bullshit, I swear, even the wind dares not blow his direction. Just brilliant filmmaking, acting, storytelling.

sometimes i like to listen to this movie’s soundtrack and pretend im a different person. if you ever see me sauntering down the street muttering to myself just know that mentally i am in a top hat robbing a stagecoach

brunette brad pitt can & should assassinate me

Casey Affleck's very best performance by far

*Jesse James farts*
Robert Ford: 😍

Beautiful. Really loved the narration

I loved the narration in the film.

I think this is one of Brad Pitts best performances as well as Casey Affleck and Sam Rockwell. 

Absolutely loved the cinematography, by none other than the one and only, Roger Deakins.

Aspect Ratio: 2:35 : 1.
Camera: Arricam LT.

Beautiful full stop

As its title suggests, this is a film set in a world which is preparing for life without its notorious protagonist. What I found most compelling about The Assassination of Jesse James was the way Warren Ellis and Nick Cave’s score defies this fact. It isn’t morose or resigned in the slightest. Its curious and searching keys always seem to be trying to find the best in its uniform cast of duplicitous men.

And this film is about men. It’s a tale of a love that is repressed by the harsh conditions of masculinity. The sexual tension And phallic symbolism pervading each scene between Jesse and Robert is what leads the former to his inevitable fate. Robert couldn’t fulfil his love for Jesse, so he had to become him, and to become Jesse James you have to kill him.

Always a good introspective time.

A spectacular performance by Affleck and Pitt, but not particularly relatable and rather dreary, even with Deakin's Sicario-esque camera work. Perhaps, not being American and not knowing who Jesse James was hurt my viewing.