After the outbreak of the Civil War, the Southern officer Carver, played by Nissen, embarked on a path of murder with four followers, while Gideon, played by Pierce Brosnan, was on the run. The battle between the two started from the Rocky Mountains in Nevada and continued to the desolate deserts of New Mexico. Throughout this process, Carver’s followers died one after another, and the two protagonists were also worn out to the point of being unrecognizable…
Gideon, dressed in a bulky leather coat, huddled by the fire on the snowy mountain to keep warm, with a listless old horse and a rifle for survival beside him. The three of them listened silently to the sound of the wind until a bullet from Carver flew past Gideon’s head, causing him to flee in panic. As he ran in a panic into the depths of the forest, the second bullet that followed still fiercely penetrated his left arm. He lost his balance and stumbled down the waterfall… When Gideon struggled to get up from the piercing cold river and used a sharp knife to pick out the bullet from his flesh, a primitive American society was revealed in this brutal scene, and a huge question mark was thrown to the audience – what caused the enmity between the two? The director’s hint to the audience is: Carver’s deep hatred for Gideon may symbolize the root cause of the outbreak of this civil war.
