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Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Morricone does a brilliant polyrhythm score. Never heard another poly rhythm score ever. This man is a master. It really doesn't get any better than this soundtrack. Kinski is fantastically evil. Trintigant is amazing as Silence. This is the best Western I've ever watched and the best movie I've ever watched. everybody must watch this movie. Vonnetta McGee did a great job too. Again, the poly rhythm score is unreal. Watch Silence shoot the potatoes. :-) How the hell do you actually get something posted on this? It doesn't seem to like poly rhythm. "there were some problems with your review."

One of the more thought-provoking spaghetti westerns of the 1960s/70s. Set in a winterscape that adds to the sombre, almost melancholy tone, each character is on the surface either good or evil; but as the film progresses, these notions of become less distinct, and perhaps more genuine. This adds a depth to the film that other such westerns do not ordinarily have, even if this depth only becomes apparent after the film ends and one reflects on the characters and story. The film seems to me a product of its time and Italy's history, in a political sense - what is right, what is wrong? - a fight between the (perverted) use of the law to get results as against morality, a fight between emotions and indivdualism (i.e. fascism as against indivualism and liberalism). But which one is which...?. Watch, enjoy. The musical score is integral to this film as well, particularly the Love Theme which plays in the deneoumont. A film worth seeking out and buying on DVD, particularly as an antidote to the Segio Leone westerns. As someone else has commented, this is to the spaghetti western as Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch" is to the Hollywood western. Perhaps a true western, truer to life than the romanticism of others in the genre.

What made me start to love this film was the music, most notably the main theme. In fact, it was the first thing I found of the film. It's slow, starts with a strangely melancholy piano ring and strumming of guitars, then building up with violins and flutes and finally going back over the song again with a chorus. I found it happy at first, it was a beautiful piece. After I watched the film, I could never really listen to the song the same way again.Let me explain why. The first opening scene is of a man wearing heavy black clothing riding a horse,going through a snowy valley, then you see five or so people armed with rifles hiding behind a snow bank. The man on the horse comes within a few yards from them, and then stops. He looks around as crows fly onto a hillside, and then looks back down as the men jump out. But before any of the men can fire, the man on the horse pulls out a Mauser Repeating pistol and sends a flurry of bullets into each one of them with a shot to the face. The camera takes shots of each one of the dead men, blood streaming down from their faces. One man apparently stayed hidden, but suddenly then jumps out, throwing his rifle down and screams "Wait! Don't shoot! I won't do it again, honestly Silence!" The man on the horse looks down, without a change in his expression, shoots the other man's thumbs clean off and leaves him to bleed to death in the snow.The film is in no way a family friendly story, and this is only a small teaspoon of what The Great Silence has to offer. Released in 1968, during the heyday of the Euro-Western trend, the film wasn't exactly a box office success as about one hundred other Euro-Westerns were released at the same time, and was sadly overlooked. But now, the film finally finally has received the attention it deserves.The film follows the story of the Silence (the man on the horse, played by Jean-Louis Trintignant), who takes vengeance on the bounty killers who are after the reward money on the wrongly accused poor folk hiding away in the mountains. One of the bandits becomes fed up with hiding, and goes to find his wife and taker her away to a safer place. But the bounty killer Loco (played by Klaus Kinski), takes the bandits wife, Pauline (played by Vonetta McGee) and uses her to lure him out, then kills him for the reward money. Pauline, wanting revenge, seeks out Silence to kill Loco. But once Silence is on Locos trail, Sheriff Burnett (played by Frank Wolff) who was sent out to stop the Bounty Killers murder for reward, is the only thing between Silence and Loco. But this isn't your normal western, and just like in real life, the good guy's don't always win.The Great Silence is still something to marvel at, even to the modern film-goer. Straight from its blood soaked story, to its beautiful snowy locations, to its bleak and other wise depressing ending. The Great Silence will leave you never looking at Euro-Westerns (or any western) the same way again.

Originally released in 1968, Sergio Corbucci's The Great Silence (Il Grande Silenzio) is widely considered the greatest spaghetti western not made by Sergio Leone. Dedicating the film to Martin Luther King, Che Guevara, and Jesus Christ, the film has very definite political undercurrents. The actions of the state and its laws seem concerned only with the protection of property and the rich, only paying attention to the poor and needy once privation has driven them to act outside of the law. The familiar Corbucci trope of hand mutilation is present, linking Silence to Jesus and Che Guevara (Jesus was nailed to the cross through his hands; the hands of the dead Che Guevara were sent to Fidel Castro) to suggest the impossibility of revolution through the actions of one solitary individual. Regardless of your feelings about the spaghetti western genre, The Great Silence is an essential piece of cinema. A haunting meditation on death, almost despairing in its indictment of injustice, it has genuine claim to the status of greatest spaghetti western ever made. GJK