A second look at the faith in Desperado
05/01/2023
Over the weekend I decided to re-watch Desperado as something of a time-waster. I have to say this is one of my favorite movies - it's not profound or anything, but it is great at what it strives to be: a fun, witty, sexy, Mexican shoot-'em-up film with a superlative soundtrack.
Everything just clicks and it's the kind of movie where you can just drop in and enjoy what's coming next.
However, as is my wont, I noticed that there's also a subtext of faith in the story. This was there from the beginning, but given Hollywood's implacable hatred of Christianity, and stands out much more now than it did in 1995. I'm planning on doing a writeup on this for Bleedingfool.com because it would also dovetail nicely with my Geek Guns column about it and my recent article on Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids.
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