Thursday, March 14, 2013

Review of 'Blood Meridian'.

Blood Meridian exists on a level all its own. Theres bloody action, conflict, violence, gunplay, the untouched spaces of the land of the North American Southwest, and of equal importance, the Mexican Northwest. The banality of this hell world maybe is its most annoying undercurrent.

John Glanton was a Texan originally from South Carolina by way of Tennessee, like so many other Texans. He had an especially colourful background like so many other Texan trailblazers. Blood Meridian exists on a level all its own. Theres bloody action, conflict, violence, gunplay, the wild spaces of the land of the North American Southwest, and of similar importance, the Mexican Northwest. John Glanton was a Texan originally from South Carolina by way of Tennessee, like so many other Texans. Blood Meridian is also an advisory story on the risks of privatization of army and law enforcement. Shades of todays Blackwater and personal mercenary groups in the Middle East and now more here in the US. The historic threads, good and malignant, the mythology and fact. Set against a tripartite of a Mexican, Anglo, and Indigenous American back drop.

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