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The Final Curtain: Mortality, Myth, and the American Frontier in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

The Coen Brothers’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) is not a conventional Western. Released on Netflix but shot with cinematic grandeur, the film is an anthology of six distinct tales, each set against the sweeping landscapes of the post-Civil War American frontier. Far from a simple homage to the genre, the film deconstructs the myth of the West, revealing it as a stage where mortality is the only certain law. Through its episodic structure, tonal whiplash, and fatalistic humor, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs argues that the frontier is not a land of opportunity but an indifferent arena where death arrives not as a tragedy, but as punchline, a business transaction, or a final, quiet surrender.

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