Still Unsurpassed

This movie was so far ahead of it's time. It is not your average western. It's an epic cinematic masterpiece. And it was filmed without a multimillion dollar budget, expensive CGI effects, etc... Just an incredible musical score, good screenplay and an unbelievably talented cast.

Ironically, it turns out that one of the greatest Westerns was produced in Italy, (filmed in Spain) a terrific triumph of film-making and musical composition there. That is the most evocative music and symbolism the Western genre ever had... --and remains unsurpassed.

The graveyard scene shows that the film is not about what appears to be about. This is a film about the US civil(or any) war. And the cemetery: the outcome of the war. The three main characters are only side characters in the whole story.

I really miss this kind of movies. Good story, great directing and incredible music. Not like the junk we get nowadays.