Having just spent several days in San Antonio, I was happy to see a film about our troubled southern border on my flight back to New York City.
"Deadland" is several things, including a gripping thriller, a murder mystery, a relationship film, and a story with supernatural/spiritual elements.
Because it aims so high, it falters in terms of being easy to understand, but there is much here to think about, along with uniformly excellent performances.
My best guess is that this is a story about karma. In 1985, two border-patrol agents kill a migrant who is injured in a border stream.
This migrant was trying to get back to his wife in El Paso and the son he'd named Angel.
Forty years later, both young and older versions of the murdered migrant return -- to visit the gravesite of his beloved wife, to reconnect with the son he never got to raise, and to seek retribution for his own death.
"Deadland" is several things, including a gripping thriller, a murder mystery, a relationship film, and a story with supernatural/spiritual elements.
Because it aims so high, it falters in terms of being easy to understand, but there is much here to think about, along with uniformly excellent performances.
My best guess is that this is a story about karma. In 1985, two border-patrol agents kill a migrant who is injured in a border stream.
This migrant was trying to get back to his wife in El Paso and the son he'd named Angel.
Forty years later, both young and older versions of the murdered migrant return -- to visit the gravesite of his beloved wife, to reconnect with the son he never got to raise, and to seek retribution for his own death.