The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Overview

In the twilight of a mythic West, a legend's shadow looms large. Two men, bound by ambition and circumstance, orbit a man whose name echoes through frontier towns. One, a poet of violence, consumed by a burning desire to etch his own infamy. The other, a figure of near-divine stature, the embodiment of outlaw romance, unknowingly forging the very instrument of his undoing. This is a mesmerizing, elegiac portrait of fractured loyalty and the insidious nature of obsession, a slow burn into the heart of an infamous legend.