Lone Star: A Different View On Texas

Lone Star was a movie that mentioned so many problems and controversies in daily life. A corrupted chief police officer, the bad relationship between father and son, the dark secret of adults which left the bad consequences for their children. All of those combined had made this movie become so great and watchable. The whole movie had many scenes that I like but there are two scenes that I love the most. The first one was the scene where Delmore came to his father’s house but he met his father’s girlfriend and he saw all the photos of him on the wall. For all these years, Del always hated Otis because Otis did not care for him and his mother. But deep inside a father, always has a special love for his son and Otis loved Del no matter what. It was just he doesn’t know how to express his love to Del. That scene made me smile because it is the same as my life. I have a bad relationship with my dad and we can’t get close together. My second favorite scene was when Buddy killed Wade in the bar. Charlie Wade was a bastard and a bad guy. He was a racist when he beat up Otis in the bar and hated Mexican people. He did so many bad things and throughout the movie, I just hoped that someone just kills him immediately. When Buddy shot him, I felt so satisfied and so happy. That was the price for someone who wants to be above the law and use their big position to do whatever they want to do.

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My favorite character was Buddy Deeds. Buddy was a sheriff who served justice and stood for people. Even though his appearance on the scene was little but through the ways people talked about him, I could see that Buddy was a good man, a stand-up man, and an equalizer. He was not like Charlie Wade, who always loved power and used that power to abuse other people. He treated people the same, he stood for the right things, and he never had thoughts of hatred. Buddy knew that as long as Wade was still alive, people in town would not be alone and live in peace. So he had to kill him to stop all the nightmares. But Buddy was not perfect. He had a dark secret that Pilar and Sam were related to each other. He hid from his son and he could not tell his son the truth because he did not want to ruin his reputation and his esteem. That made me think that everyone has secrets to hide and if the secrets are bad, they will be dug up. Behind the most respected life like Buddy, it is a corrupted man and no one is perfect in this world.

There is no need to think a lot. My least favorite character and the most hateful character was Charlie Wade. A man like Charlie Wade represented corrupt cops and power abusive. There was no word to tell the terrible crimes of Charlie Wade. He must be a good person who stood for people but no, instead, he put power and his white supremacy on first to treat badly every Mexican people and African American in the town. The segment of Charlie Wade was in the 60s where the Civil Rights Movement was at the climax and Charlie Wade was like other cops at that time who went against the marches of African Americans in that decade.

I hate Charlie Wade's character. But I really like Kris Kristofferson. He had portrayed that corrupt cop. Every movement in his acting was so lively and truthful which made me feel like he was really Charlie Wade. His voice was so deep which made me feel the danger in him. I knew him through the A Star Is Born movie when he acted with Barbara Streisand. And in this movie, he had changed himself into a villain. I think the success of this role was his facial expression. There was something mysterious and something really dark and evil. I really like Kris in this movie.

The theme of this film is about the other side of a person, which I consider the most relevant. In life, nobody is perfect. People have secrets to hide and sometimes it is so dark. They want to bury their own secret to the ground. But if the secret hurts anyone else, the truth will be revealed soon. Like Buddy, a beloved sheriff of the town, and behind that man, there was a dark life that he wanted to hide but his son found out. This theme wanted to say that whatever you do in life, you must think about the consequences in the future.

The film deals with racial issues effectively and honestly. Mexican people and African Americans were treated badly and unequally. I remembered one scene in a meeting, where a white woman spoke up that Mexican people were taking America’s value away. It had shown that Mexican people were underestimated and White Americans wanted to get rid of them because they were everywhere. I could not hide my emotion when I watched those scenes where there were African American and Mexican people were being treated terribly by Charlie Wade. As I said, this movie was foreshadowed for the future. It is still right every time.

The moment in the movie where Sam and Pilar found out the truth about their relationship. It untied the knot of the question about why Sam’s and Pilar’s relationship was being rejected by Buddy and Mercedes. That was the plot twist of this movie and it is the unexpected moment that I could not see it coming. Even I found it compelling but it was a big loss for the relationship of Sam and Pilar which they loved each other for real and hoped they could come together. But life did not allow them to be together. Maybe in another life, they could be together.

The question I wanted to ask is why he made Sam and Pilar unable not come together. Sam was an alone star who was on the way to find out the truth about the skull in the desert. He was like his father who wanted to serve justice. He was alone all the time and he only had Pilar as his love. He could not come together. Why was the director so unfair to him like that? If Sam and Pilar came together, it would not have ruined the plot of the movie because their relationship was just a supporting element among so many plots in the movie.