The Proposition
Opens May 5 in New York and Los Angeles.
If you are like me and enjoy a movie plenty of drama, lotsof bloodshed, and an enormous amounts of facial hair, then
The Proposition is for you.
The film, set in the Austalian Outback of the 1880s, stars Guy Pearce as a good beard, Charlie Burns,
who — together with his two brothers –
is wanted for a brutal killing. He is subsequently captured and offered a Faustian bargain: the only means
of saving his younger brother from the gallows is to kill his demented older brother.
But then again, as in real life, it doesn’t all come down to the simple equation of good
good beards and bad beards. Everyone was a little bit good beard and a little bit bad beard trying to
make their way in the Australian wild west. (Except for one guy with no beard who got flayed.
He seemed nice enough. Shame about him. But you think he would have seen it coming. But I digress.)
Replete with ex-cons, bounty hunters, murderous maniacs, psychotic Brits, and vindictive natives, The Proposition
is great American western on steroids thrown into a breathtaking and austere surrounding.
The ever-brilliant John Hurt also provides a masterfully performance as an older, wiser beard
and the original music by
the hirsute Nick Cave will make your whiskers stand on end.
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