Keoma is one of the strangest spaghetti westerns ever made, as well as one of the last. The film was created at the very end of the spaghetti western era, and it serves as something of a fond farewell to the era of the Italo-western. If you’re a fan of films like The Good the Bad and the Ugly and For a Few Dollars More, you definitely need to put Keoma on your movie downloads queue.
The movie borrows liberally from other films in the genre, specifically Django, from where it gets the idea of setting the film in a town that’s been quarantined due to a plague, and the inhumane land barons who keep medicine out and quarantined patients in. The film has a very existential feel to it, so it’s kind of the spaghetti western answer to the great The Seventh Seal.
The existentialism is on display in more than just the atmosphere. Events can happen out of nowhere and take you completely by surprise. Certainly, many key points in the story have nothing to do with anything else in the plot, they just sort of… Happen, completely at random. As Camus said “the most existential thing would be to die in a car accident, completely at random”.
The half-Indian Keoma’s quest is to liberate his home town. This is complicated by his three brothers who work for the corrupt land baron. There’s some interesting family drama in here: Keoma loves his father, his brothers love the father. The father loves all four of his sons. Keoma’s brothers hate him, and in turn, he hates his brothers. They form a very uneasy truce for as long as their father is living, but it’s clear that it won’t last forever.
A big part of the film’s atmosphere is the soundtrack. It’s not just the usual drums and whistling you hear in spaghetti westerns. It does use those classic Italo-western instruments and composition styles, but it mixes that with some strange, hippie-esque folk rock to create a complete, one of a kind sound that you won’t hear in any other movie anywhere.
The movie is very imaginative, with more clever, weird, funny ideas than a dozen other movies put together. In one scene, Keoma shoots it out with a gang of bad guys, spares one of them, and then hands him the live round that could have killed him. Later in the film, Keoma is tied to a wagon wheel and starts rolling, rolling all the way to safety. There are a lot of really cool “WTF?” type moments in the film just like that one.
Like many great stories, Keoma is a movie about family, about love and hate within a family. These stories have always resonated with audiences, because everyone has a family, so we can all relate to a dysfunctional family story.
The movie is loaded with great action, weird atmosphere, cool, strange music and fascinating characters. It’s exciting, thought provoking, surprising, moving and just plain odd and eerie. It really is a one of a kind film, not just in the spaghetti western genre, but in all of film, period, and it really does take a whole new meaning to the term “revisionist western”.
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