As soon as they step away from the counter, the old man grabs his six-shooter. This is a move so naive it almost garners sympathy for the thieves this early in the story. “Of course I have a gun! Y’all gonna rob me of my gun?!” Toby takes the man’s gun and places it on the counter telling him they only came to rob the bank. He shakes his head, “ That’s crazy! Y’all ain’t even Mexicans!” These sort of gems are sprinkled all along the Great Plains of this cinematic masterpiece. “ Y’all robbing the bank?!” Asks the shocked old-timer. A well-aged cowboy brings in what appear to be silver-era coins to assess their value. Toby looks uncertain about it all, while his brother seems high from the adrenaline. He eats a pistol butt for breakfast and the two speed away with Tanner behind the wheel. They throw the teller to the floor and wait for the manager. It’s clear to her they don’t know what they’re doing since they want her to open the bank vault, something most people are aware requires at least one bank manager. If Texas Midlands Bank does not exist to safeguard the interests of Texans, why should it be allowed to exist? Their only interest seems to be capitalism for the sake of capitalism.Ī very homely looking bank teller walks in and is taken from behind by the robbers. Graffiti on the rear of the bank reads “3 TOURS IN IRAQ BUT NO BAILOUT FOR PEOPLE LIKE US.” The writing on the wall sets the populist tone for the film. Toby is divorced, with two sons who are not impressed with their father and his inability to pay child support. The mother of these bank robbers has passed away, so now Toby and Tanner Howard (played by Chris Pine and Ben Foster, respectively) have only a few days left to pay the debt before the bank forecloses on the property. It won’t take much surfing on YouTube to uncover how many financial advisers warn their clients not to agree to such a loan. It’s an offer sometimes made to a person who can no longer afford their home, or is living on valuable land unbeknownst to them. As the audience will later learn, Midlands Bank issued what is known as a reverse mortgage, where the bank loans a homeowner (usually elderly) enough money to keep the house until they die. Two masked bandits approach a branch of the Texas Midlands Bank.
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The movie is highly recommended, but you might want to see it first. Spoiler Alert: The following contains a lot of plot summary. But this is a tale of the here and now in the dismal financial fallout of Obama’s America - and the desperation of much of White America. That said, the story could take place over a century and a half ago. Two Texas Rangers trying to out-think and out-maneuver them into the reach of the long arm of the law. I’ll tell it to you straight.: We’ve got us here a story you’ve all heard before. In Hell or High Water we see the sovereign Lone Star demoted to one more vassal state in Weimerica. The modern world is robbing Texas towns of their soul and the soil of its blood. The quality of character that made the land, its sky above, and the people between so very great are being filtered out by modernity. This is a film that excels at capturing the atmosphere of a place passing through the sieve of time. It’s not the protagonists that I’m referring to as “these people.” It’s the supporting cast. Hell or High Water is a tale of poor Southern White folks - Texans to be specific - suffering at the hands of usurious banksters who want to seize the land these people raised their kids on as the shylock’s pound of flesh. No one trusts the bank and everybody owes. Any feminist watching one would go into conniptions from their “toxic masculinity.” The men have guns and the women have curves. Political Correctness does not sell here.
Neo-Westerns are the rough terrain that remain untamed and unclaimed by the heebs.
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