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Old 31-12-2007, 09:14 PM
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Anyone care enlighten on the metaphorical aspects of the film?
The headstone Frances Hutchins is shown at beginning of film?
Kids teasing a terrier?
Strangled cat?
mathematican?
shooting of the fowl intercerpted with the rape?
Here are some of my interpretations:
American in a foriegn village -Vietnam?
The car a triumph STAG - stags fight and rutt to mate the female?
Henry niles - tall and retarted - of mice and men?
The shoddy builders - Peckinpahs non -western "cowboys"?

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Vietnam is certainly one, but I find the connection slender. Also pacifism, and despite Hoffman's abhorrence to physical violence he eventually must defend himself.

It's a film I've always viewed as a Cornish western. Hoffman is the American settler and the villagers are the Native Americans.
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I think the 'strangled cat' hanging in the wardrobe means that us local yokels can get into your private personal space......so beware!
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It's a film I've always viewed as a Cornish western. Hoffman is the American settler and the villagers are the Native Americans.
That's the way I have always looked at it. I have read a couple of books about Peckinpah and the use of metaphors wasn't mentioned, apart from the Vietnam connection. Peckinpah said in an interview I also read that he made it purely 'to do something different'.

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It's a film I've always viewed as a Cornish western. Hoffman is the American settler and the villagers are the Native Americans.
New member here, so I hope you won't mind if I jump right in and say that that's a really eye-opening way to view the film.

I need to find my copy and watch it again with that in mind.
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I think the 'strangled cat' hanging in the wardrobe means that us local yokels can get into your private personal space......so beware!
I wonder if it had been called Straw Cats instead would it have featured a strangled dog?
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