Lady Sheridan wrote:I bought the ending. It was, at its core, a story about honor. Christian Bale was desperate, he wanted something to succeed. He was tired of watching everyone else get ahead and even though $200.00 wasn't enough to make or break his ranch, he wanted something to go his way.
Crowe was a man of honor too. In the end, that's why he did what he did. He was never in fear of his life and it amused him to go along with it...and he genuinely began to like Bale. What his gang did pissed him off--there's honor among thieves, after all, and you don't shoot a man in the back. He had told them to cease fire, and they disobeyed him. Crowe killed, at times quite coldly, but he generally had a good reason for it. Shooting a man in the back, in cold blood, wasn't his style.
It was more when they started the run for it I didn't buy. I knew why he killed his men but why did he decide to go along with Bale in the first place?