He’s still following the hummingbird and has either dreamed up the entire second half of the movie, or the second half of the movie is really happening but he’s seeing a different version of reality than everyone else (skewed by the drug). It is possible that the entire sequence after he takes the drugs is nothing but a huge drug trip.If that is the case, it could represent any number of things.
There is some implication that the alien woman could see it, too I was sure she looked right at it, and she was therefore somehow connected to him for his little trip.
He follows the hummingbird to the truth and then remembers what happened to his girlfriend/wife and how to find the “demons” again. The hummingbird represents his subconscious as he searches for the answers to his past. Lots of people keep finding this post looking for the answer of what the hummingbird means, and as it’s now been 2 weeks since the movie’s been out I’ll tell you my thoughts here. The movie is based around the question of the main character– is he a criminal or a victim? And a whole lot of bad men rising to do good things. “I’ve seen good men do bad things and I’ve seen bad men do good things.” “Only two types of people get shot criminals and victims. Second, in the first 10 to 15 minutes of the movie it’s mostly just an old-style Western (albeit a little rougher than, say, a John Wayne flick), and when the preacher character is introduced, he says what pretty much sums up the movie:ġ. If you see the movie, you’ll know what I mean. I’m sure they mean it metaphorically, but I don’t like their metaphor/connection. I don’t want to give any of the plot away, but I will say that a hummingbird appears in two scenes and while it kind of worked for me the first time, I wasn’t sure entirely what they were implying with it the second time. No one ever says “alien” because that wasn’t a part of the vocabulary back then. They really inhabited these characters and their reactions to (and interactions, such as they are, with) the aliens are believable when the townsfolk first encounter the aliens, they ask the preacher what they are and he points out that they fit the description of demons pretty well, so that’s what they are for the rest of the movie– demons. It reminded me of Indiana Jones and his hat… and of course, to have a very rugged Indy sitting beside him made it that much better. One thing I especially enjoyed was that Craig’s character consistently makes a point of keeping his hat on his head, despite tumbling into a lake, being blasted out of a cave, and falling off of things a fair few times. Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig both make excellent cowboys and it’s fun to see them play off of each other. I read a Time editorial where the author was singing the praises of literal movie titles, and I have to say I agree that sometimes it’s nice to have a movie that just says right up front what it’s about.Īnyway, the movie was very enjoyable. It is exactly what the title says: a movie about cowboys and aliens.