The Proposition

United Kingdom, Australia

2005

104 Min

Color

2.35:1

English

Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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EXEC James Atherton, Chris Auty, Sara Giles, Michael Hamlyn, Michael Henry, Norman Humphrey, Robert Jones

PROD Chris Brown, Chiara Menage, Cat Villiers

CAST Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston, Emily Watson, John Hurt, David Wenham, Noah Taylor, David Gulpilil, Leah Purcell, Richard Wilson, Tommy Lewis, Tom Budge

Rural Australia in the late nineteenth century: Capt. Stanley and his men capture two of the three Burns brothers, Charlie and Mike. Their gang is held responsible for attacking the Hopkins farm, raping pregnant Mrs. Hopkins and murdering the whole family. Arthur Burns, the eldest brother and the gang’s mastermind, remains at large has and has retreated to a mountain hideout. Capt. Stanley’s proposition to Charlie is to gain pardon and – more importantly – save his beloved younger brother Mike from the gallows by finding and killing Arthur within nine days. —IMDb

Director

John Hillcoat

John Hillcoat (born 1961) is an Australian screenwriter and film director. Hillcoat was born in Queensland, Australia, and was raised in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. As a child, his paintings were featured in the Art Gallery of Hamilton. He has repeatedly worked with Nick Cave and also the band Depeche Mode. His film The Road, based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy, premiered at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival, and was released in the U.S. in November 2009. —Wikipedia

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Starshine

25Apr13

amazing soundtrack.

joey Noodles

8Apr13

Very entertaining and VERY VERY beautiful visually (wasn't at all expecting that), but it felt as if it was just missing something. Wasn't crazy about the ending either, it felt incomplete, and the plot was at times a bit weird.

aperian

28Mar13

strange. i like it.

Zach Closs

25Feb13

Easily one of my favorite genre pieces ever, and it's a subversive one. A majestic yet unnervingly brutal and disturbing western that sees played-out archetypes confronting long-suppressed guilt and shame amidst the ruins of their painfully forced, respective utopias. Never before have I seen the mythic landscape and set-up of the classic western characterized by such self-loathing and melancholy; "The Proposition" is black and dismal, but palpable as such, and supremely thoughtful in its examinations of violence and the lengths that men will go to when their spirits are in jeopardy.