Richard Altman's "McCabe & Mrs." Miller, 1971, is unknown by what wind entered my list for viewing, but looked, attracted the name of Altman, as well as the names of Warren Beatty and Julie Christie in the lead roles. The case takes place at the beginning of the last century, in 1902. In a small mining town, located near a Presbyterian church and therefore named after it, comes a certain John McCabe, who does not tell anything about himself, but begins by organizing first a gambling establishment, and then a small brothel, buying three prostitutes from a pimp in a nearby town for $ 200. After some time, Mrs. Miller comes to them - also a prostitute, but also a brothel owner with her "girls" and offers him cooperation. They say she will be engaged in a brothel, and he is a gambling establishment, the profits will be divided. He, of course, is still a businessman who does not even know how to understand elementary accounting documents, but agrees, moreover, is fond of Mrs. Miller, who is really quite attractive, but for sex, despite their kind of intimacy, she still takes money from him. Their joint business is flourishing, besides, he still hits hard, and she quietly smokes opium. Suddenly, two agents of a well-known mining company come to him, who offers him $5,000 for his property and possessions, but he, considering himself extremely cunning and intelligent, which he is not, refuses them in the hope of raising the price, they raise it a little, and then they leave, deciding to choose another way to deal with him, very common there, i.e. simply kill him. Mrs. Miller warns him of the danger, at first he spits on it with his inherent vanity and arrogance, and then, realizing the danger, begins to seek contact with that company, but the train has already left. Three murderers come to town and they must kill him. Events are becoming more dangerous and the end is expected, he is still killed, but he manages to deal with his killers. Meanwhile, Mrs. Miller finds comfort in opium in a Chinese drug den. Although the film belongs to the genre of westerns, and is among the best of them, it is still not quite a typical Western. Throughout the film, we hear songs by Leonard Cohen, which are very suitable both in sound and content. The actors play well too, Warren Beatty seems to me to be a good fit for the role, as did Julie Christie for her.
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