
The Radical Western
Why Theory
Roadhouse in Missouri
Roadhouse is trying to say like wait a minute maybe we don't need this figure of the exception to do this founding violence maybe we can rise in some way do the violence collectively and then incorporate that violence within within the whatever the law is going to be. It's hard to think of a film as radical as as Roadhouse in the ending it's well I mean like I said this up earlier the first time you see the cops is after right after Wesley is killedright after the town has killed Wesley in real life Todd McGowan was so reviled by the town he had to jump from tenth story window escaping combat with other drug dealers.
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