Searching

The Searchers, is a fantastic story of a man seeking revenge. John Wayne plays, Ethan a man hellbent on killing the Native tribe that killed his entire family.

That's the jist of this fantastic drama adventure film, obviously born a western but the outcome produces so much more.

I don't think i'll speculate on the first opening minutes of the film, in fear of a mental breakdown, but after the inciting incident of Ethan's family being murdered, we have the beginnings of a long, hard journey, with our two characters Ethan and his nephew.

In my personal opinion, i think this film started off the mismatched adventure, with two contrast and clashing personalities on the same mission but with different goals, one to kill the tribe (Ethan), the other to find the tribe and save his cousin.

In an overall watch of the film it's easy to get a sense of a long and hard journey, after all is said and done it's hard to look back on what we originally had until the closing scene which almost mimics the opening. I think this scene is so familiar to the start of the film, to show just how long the journey has been and how much the two characters have been through. As an audience member i feel that i have participated in this adventure around south, living each season, in the cold, the heat and the dark night.

When watching films like these, I have a personal view, and the way i make my personal view is, while the film is wrapping up, i look back on the opening scenes and try to remember what the film was like, so long ago in before our incident. When doing this I get great sense that i have been taken on this long journey and i have been transported with the main characters all along the way and even so much that i lost point A for a while and was only concerned in getting to point B.

Films, like the searchers are able to drag you in and completely emerge in the world, the story and the needs of the characters. From my point of view, any good adventure film should be able to do that.