While they are asleep, Silas and Jay share a dream of Silas and Rose living together with a child. They awaken to find that Payne has stolen their weapons. Silas discloses the bounty to Jay. They evade Payne's gang in a forest, where Jay is injured by Native Americans. Rose and her father live in a nearby prairie, protected by a Native American called Kotori. Victor, disguised as a priest, tracks them down and kills Rose's father. After reaching the prairie, Silas ties Jay to a tree to keep him from harm. Silas rushes to the house to warn Rose of Payne's gang but is wounded by Victor. Payne and his men kill Victor and assault the house. Jay frees himself and runs to the house. After Kotori and most of Payne's gang are killed, Rose realizes she has shot Jay in the confusion. While she comforts him, Payne enters the house and Jay shoots him as he dies. Silas tells Rose that Jay loved her "with all his heart". Silas stays with Rose and the Swedish children. Cast [ edit] Kodi Smit-McPhee as Jay Cavendish [9] Michael Fassbender as Silas Selleck [9] Ben Mendelsohn as Payne [9] Caren Pistorius as Rose Ross [10] Rory McCann as John Ross [7] Edwin Wright as Victor the Hawk Michael Whalley as The Kid Andrew Robertt as Werner [7] Madeleine Sami as Marimacho Brian Sergent as Peyote Joe Bryan Michael Mills as The Minstrel Kalani Queypo as Kotori Production [ edit] On 19 September 2013, it was announced that Michael Fassbender, Kodi Smit-McPhee, and Ben Mendelsohn had joined the cast of Slow West, produced by Film4 Productions.
[14] Michelle Orange of SBS gave the film four-out-of-five stars, and said that " Slow West is defined by a kind of loving ambivalence—about its hero, its genre, and perhaps most of all about a landscape so harsh and so beautiful it almost makes a man hope to die. " [15] References [ edit] External links [ edit] Slow West on IMDb Slow West at Rotten Tomatoes Slow West at Metacritic
3 million [4] Slow West is a 2015 British-New Zealand [5] action Western film written and directed by John Maclean in his directorial debut. It stars Kodi Smit-McPhee as a young Scotsman searching for his lost love in the American West, accompanied by a bounty hunter played by Michael Fassbender. It premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2015, [6] where it was awarded the Sundance Institute's World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic Winner. [7] The film was first released on 15 May 2015 in the United States, with a simultaneous release on video on demand. [8] Plot [ edit] Jay Cavendish, a young Scotsman, travels to the American West to search for his love, Rose Ross. He encounters a group of men chasing a Native American; an Irish bounty hunter, Silas Selleck, arrives and kills the leader. Jay employs the bounty hunter for protection. At a trading post, unbeknownst to Jay, Silas sees a wanted poster offering a $2, 000 bounty for Rose and her father. He plans to use Jay to get to the bounty.