all the tired horses: williamstown recce

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all the tired horses (wt) is a modern melodrama blended with western themes and iconography. the film follows rocky, a down-and-out traveling salesman, on his final sales tour. rocky keeps his dreary existence interesting by imagining himself as the embodiment of the man with no name from the spaghetti westerns with which he is obsessed. the products, which rocky and the other salesmen are selling, are hard sell items, which are largely not available for purchase in the modern marketplace. he is selling anti-static tails (thin, rubber, deionizing devices for cars.) with the prospect of unemployment looming and depending solely on his performance on this tour, the majority of rocky’s attention remains elsewhere as he tries to win the affections of a female co-worker named nancy. with no sign of an improvement in his sales figures and hearing that his boss and nancy are to marry, rocky’s western fantasies quickly become delusions. upon finding a pair of handguns at the peak of his despair, and educating himself on their use via audiocassette from the library, rocky stumbles into a final confrontation with his bullying boss.

all the tired horses

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