First, he’s unsure how he’s arrived where he is, namely, in the New Mexican desert without a horse and with a bloody wound in his side. Just so, as Jake wakes at the start of Cowboys & Aliens, he’s feeling loss. That this loss is conventionally embodied by women is also not news. The situation is typical: men in movies are typically defined by loss, which in turn triggers revenge, remorse, and rebellion. Actually, it begins and ends with Jake Lonergan (Daniel Craig) thinking about dead girls. Cowboys & Aliens begins and ends with dead girls.
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