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The film presents the strange reality of the Old West through a real, exciting pattern. It is six different stories that can illustrate an exciting look at the customs, traditions, social life and conditions of society and people within those old western regions. It is a completely different life that we did not know anything about.
You'd think with viewers' short attention spans and love of binge-watching, it would be the perfect format for today. But "Buster Scruggs" is mostly unengaging.
The fatalism and mortality that pervade The Ballad of Buster Scruggs has more in common with the macabre churnings of Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville than Louis L'Amour.
After a darkly hilarious musical number, the Buster story loses steam in its goofy closing moments - but that's OK, it's time to move on to the next chapter!
Taken as a whole, it's smart, snappy filmmaking from the duo who, 30-plus years into their careers, are still revealing new tricks hidden up their sleeves.
The Coens achieve the simple but difficult task of creating refreshing entertainment by resorting to what they do best: cinema as it was meant to be in its golden age. [Full review in Spanish]
Though the stories are individually captivating and very much worth the price of admission-see the film on a big screen if you can-they fit together awkwardly.