Blackthorn
Director's notes
One of the things that I like most about Westerns is that it’s a truly moral genre. Its characters face important and life ensuing subject matters in a very pure and simple state. Freedom, commitment, loyalty, courage, treachery, ownership and money, justice, friendship and even love. The decisions they are confronted with are not only very dramatic but will also set up moral standards.
What more can you ask from a film? From any dramatic work? It’s a genre that helps us look at our own life and find ways to face it.
Blackthorn encompasses all these subject matters in such a way that we realize how important this moral outlook is nowadays and yet how we seem to have forgotten it or consider it obsolete. And by facing these matters from a modern point of view, the movie is obviously nostalgic.
In my opinion the most attractive point of the film's story is this "swan song" premise: our main character's prelude to it's own demise.
