Welcome to a new article from Espadas y más! Today we will talk about a new western that we are about to see in theaters and that stars Viggo Mortensen. "Hasta el Fin del Mundo"
But first, what is this western about?
Until the End of the World is set in the United States of the 1860s, in which an independent woman named Vivienne Le Coudy begins a relationship with the Dane Holger Olsen. After meeting the latter in San Francisco, she travels with him to his home near Elk Flats, in Nevada, where they begin to live together, however the Civil War will separate them...
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In a setting where the dust of the Old West mixes with the harshness of a new and merciless America, "Until the End of the World" reveals itself as an odyssey told from the perspective of the protagonist's wife. In this world steeped in racism and misogyny, she emerges as the true builder of a future. Here, a grave can symbolize hope and a river, red from the stains that are washed in it, becomes the healing baptism for man. This river flows towards the sea of the end credits, as emblematic as the sea that stars in the poetics and deconstruction of the masculine in "The Impenetrable Face" (1961), starring Marlon Brando.
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In "Until the End of the World," the "hero" does not draw his weapon or take lives, but violence lurks in a raw and merciless manner. In this narrative, echoes of Clint Eastwood films such as "Unforgiven" (1992), with its tormented gunman, and "The Outlaw" (1976), where the journey towards inner peace is undertaken thanks to feminine strength and determination, can be seen.
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Viggo Mortensen, skilled in manipulating the genre's tropes and archetypes, infuses the narrative with a genuinely European touch, at times reminiscent of Bertolt Brecht, especially in the depiction of figures such as the judge, the sheriff and the pianist. But even more Brechtian is the presence of the mother as a symbol of courage, which makes Mortensen's second film as a director a cinematic gem.
And you, what do you think of this new production?
