the homesman

Gary and I watched this film starring and produced and directed by Tommy Lee Jones.  It was an excellent film, but not an easy one, about a homesteading woman who agrees to take three mentally ill pioneer women by wagon back to Iowa.  She realizes she can't manage the three of them alone and hires a low-life former soldier to assist her.  He is played by TLJ.  For me, the upshot of this film - in fact, nearly every scene fairly shouted to me the message - settling the west was madness!  Every one in this film is mad in their own way, even the most sane in appearance - and I found this ultimately to be rather sad.  And scary, especially the final scene.  Watch it at your own risk!  But if you want a good dose of 'reality,' this is the film for you!