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I feel that the film The Three Burials staring Tommy Lee Jones is the most effective revision of the genre contemporary westerns we viewed. The film showed the revision of an old western film, but play it into more a modern theme and with modern issues. In the film, Jones forces Barry Pepper character to rebury a Mexican immigrant he killed by accident. In the past, there were no borders, or even the term illegal immigrant in the west. Tommy Lee Jones character Pete Perkins feels that the West is still lawless, so he takes justice into his own hands, by kidnapping Barry Pepper character Mike Norton a Customs and Border Control agent. Perkin feels he has a duty to his friend, and crosses the border to force Norton to give his friend a proper

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