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- The tale is one that explores race, morality of killing a man, responsibility for one’s actions, a promise and redemption.
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Sep 24, 2012 · Tommy Lee Jones’ The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada begins as a story of honour between close friends and quickly devolves into multiple perspectives of an archetypal quest for masculine redemption and second chances.
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- Tommy Lee Jones
The film’s theme of death draws from narratives such as As I Lay Dying, in that it chronicles the pursuits of offering a proper committal to the deceased. As the title also suggests it is the attempt or rather the challenge at ensuring the proper burial of the titular character.
- Tommy Lee Jones
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada draws on two sources of influence. One being the real-life killing of an American teenager, Esequiel Hernandez Jr, during a military operation at the Texas/Mexico border. The other source is that of William Faulkner’s novel As I Lay Dying.
- Tommy Lee Jones
Powerful meditation on the brutality of the U.S-Mexico border region. Rancher Pete Perkins (Jones) forces Mike Norton (Pepper) to carry the body of Pete's friend Melquiades Estrada (Cedillo) from their dusty Texas border town to the dead man's home in Mexico for burial in his family cemetery.
Jul 21, 2012 · The obvious reference point in terms of both plot and theme for The Three Burials is the work of Cormac McCarthy. Since moving to the Southwest about 30 years ago, McCarthy has turned out a string of novels that deal with the murky moral and physical hazards of the region.
Plot. Melquiades Estrada, a Mexican undocumented worker working in Texas as a cowboy, shoots at a coyote which is menacing his small flock of goats. A nearby United States Border Patrol officer, Norton, thinks he is being attacked and shoots back, killing Melquiades. Norton quickly buries Melquiades and does not report anything.
