It's a celebration of activism raised to self-empowerment. Although guns are drawn, and in a few instances actually fired, this isn't a body-count film. Perhaps more to the point was that critics and the public at the time were a bit derriere-garde in their grasp of how a flattened indigenous subculture, instead of being dispossessed and dispersed once and for all, regenerates itself in a beanfield, replenished by the natural world, defeating its would-be despoilers. Nobody at the time thought to refer to Redford's dip into contemporary folklore, magic realism, quirky characters and simpatico rapport with pre-Anglo culture as avant-garde. Three, if you count Robert Redford, who produced and directed it and, most importantly, adroitly balanced its tricky elements to fashion it into a endearing and enduring - populist fable. Share The Milagro Beanfield War (1988) begins with one angel dancing out of a sunrise and two angels dancing into a sunset.
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