Tag: Cormac McCarthy

It’s a comically violet Western, about a violet teenager that vagabonds somewhere in Texas. He stumbles upon a preacher giving a ceremon. The preacher is interrupted by a judge, saying that he’s a fake priest and a child molester. the congregation wants to lynch the priest for that, so he runs away. The judge tells everyone that he made up the story, and everyone laughs.
He then gets into a fight with a drunk, gets knocked out by a passerby, and when he wakes up, he goes with the same passerby to beat some guy staying in the hotel, and they burn the hotel in the process.
He then goes to a Mexican town, with no money, asks for a drink for mopping their floors, mops the floor, gets no drink and proceeds to kill the barman with a bottle.
By this point Irregulars, which I guess are like bandits cosplaying as army, decide that this is exactly the qualities they need, and enlist him into their ranks. He also lies that he was robbed by a bunch of people, despite the fact it were the herders that gave him food for free.
Irregulars plan invasion into Mexico. Only they first get ambushed by Indians, then the rest are killed by bandits that cosplay as Mexican Army.
Kid is saved by meeting Toadvine, the guy he burned the hotel with, and Judge Holden, the guy who falsely accused the priest, who serves as a headhunter for Mexicans.