![]() ![]() They stop and ask the cowboy – incidentally played by the film’s writer, Taylor Sheridan – if he needs any help. Like they do for much of the film, the two are bickering and trading insults with each other… Until they spot a fire and a cowboy moving his cattle out of its path. ![]() It’s a scene in the middle of the film which shows Texas Ranger Marcus Hamilton (played by Jeff Bridges, who garnered a nomination for Best Supporting Actor at that year’s Academy Awards) and his partner Alberto (played by Gil Birmingham) driving down a highway, trying to get to the scene of one in a string of bank robberies they are investigating. There is scene in Hell or High Water that has stuck with me since I first saw it in 2016. Along the way, though, we watch a number of encounters that help to illuminate two of the films many themes: how technology has changed the way people make a living and the terrible effect poverty and a lack of opportunity has a people. To make a long story short, after a lengthy series of trial and tribulations, the boys succeed in raising the money and securing the financial future of their family. To pay off what the film portrays as a predatory bank loan, the boys need to raise approximately $40,000. To pay of their debts (thereby stopping the bank from taking the property), and to stop the vicious cycle of poverty in their family, the dynamic duo have started to rob Texas Midlands Bank branches – the same bank that preyed on both their financial and moral vulnerability. They have been poor their whole lives and are at risk of losing a piece of property to the bank which is later revealed to have a fair amount of oil on it. In David Mckenzie’s Hell or High Water, we are introduced to brothers Toby and Tanner Howard (played by Chris Pine and Ben Foster, respectively). ![]()
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