Episode 412 - "The Searchers"

The Searchers is a western at the highest panoramic level visually about ultimately a man who is extraordinarily conflicted between elements in his past, elements in his recent past, and a terrible traumatic catastrophe that occurs to his family.

massacre and it is his attempt to ride away and in search of something that is completely absolutely bedeviling and constricting his entire life and it's a movie about the search for some kind of answer and ultimate realization and finally deliverance from a degree of appropriate but consuming rage that must be dealt with for there to be any kind of hope for the man.

And over about one hour and 58 minutes, the search both for a child who's been kidnapped by Indians on the one hand and his own inner compulsive feelings of unbelievable revenge and retribution for something that happened to someone he loved, have to find and do find a climactic answer.

And the answer is surprising.

And in today's world of, quote, dark and always complicated endings, it wouldn't happen this way.

But in real life, it sometimes does.

And certainly in the Christian life.

That's right.

Very good.

Good summary, man.

Very good.

Makes me want to watch the film again.

One more time.

So I had seen the film once before.

Watching it for this podcast was my second time seeing it.

And I think it was your first time.

Yeah.

Is that right?

So, Mr. Zoll,

I'm

very sorry.

I thought I had seen this film.

We were talking about it at lunch.

And we're re-watching it on Friday.

And I'm like, I have never seen this film.