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Good Points: In John Sayles movie, Men With Guns, the protagonist dies of exhaustion without finding a word of what he was looking for. He was looking for men without guns, amongst men with guns. No, he wasn't even looking for men without guns; he was looking for few exceptional men, with or without guns. Because he did not believe in the existence of the men with guns, the world before his eyes was flat and square, a notion which he later comes regard as his sheer ignorance. But it is not merely ignorance, ignorance would not be enough; it is the denial of their existence "of men with guns " which would find him in the arms of irrevocable misery. As he moves from the city to the country, from the shore to the mountains, he also moves through the inexorable passages of time and history. There were boundless ruins of older civilizations that lived the lands he traverses, and powerless villagers, moved here and there according to the arbitrary whims of the men with guns.

General comments: Who are these men with guns? Well, you see, there are all sorts of men with guns - rogues, rebels, rash courtiers, jesters, men of honor and men of law and also plain wise men, and many many more men. But our protagonist moves through the dense forests with a blinker on one of his eyes. It was very important for him to do so; focus was needed and distractions needed to be avoided. And for our protagonist, one Seeing Eye was enough to testify the Truth, just as how one blinkered-eye was enough to defy the Lie. So where is the eye in all this? Where is the protagonist leading? Of course, he is leading towards the Truth. But where is the Truth in all this? Only the protagonist knows, he thinks it is there and this, yet he cannot find it.