Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
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So many elements on this film have spread in the form of reference in the popular culture that even watching it the first time it feels so familiar. "Raindrops are falling on my head" is the last thing to expect in a western and it fits here perfectly as the Paul Newman's tricks on the bike.

Watching Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is an invitation to ambiguity. It is an invitation to discover and love this two characters that even being heartless bank robbers manage to captivate as much as the historical figures in which they are based. These are the ultimate nice bad guys and the word antiheroes is all over the place.

This is a movie about an amazing duo, and beyond being Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Robert Redford and Paul Newman do an amazing job with this characters that seem fresh and kind where many other western characters fall in the serious cartoon of the ruthless cowboy. This movie reminds me of another amazing duo movie: Jules et Jim. They are the kind of character that seem to have a dimension outside the movie and linger after the credits have rolled.

I really like the "irregular" narrative, the photo-stills and the music that fills in the gaps of the story. The movie doesn't need to tell it all. It feels and appear in the screen -sometimes in unexplainable ways like that bike scene- like a jigsaw, where it is left to the audience to fill in the blanks and construct the story of the great adventures of this two memorable characters.