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Was Greider the son of Brenner?

posted 10 years ago by Biondett0
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Just seen the movie again on Bluray. While I think it is one of the best german language movies I have seen in years there are still some thing I dislike.

For instance I think it would have been much better without the voiceover. Of course some people would not have understood the backstory of Greider but I just was thinking how perfectly the story of Harmonica in "Once upon a time in the West" had been told and how spoiled it would have been with an voiceover.

But here is the question to which I have not been able to come to an answer: Was Greider maybe the son of Brenner?

There are some hints, like the conversation they have in the bedchamber at the end and in the flashback scene when you see how the bride was rescued and then hidden. It seems unlikely that they were having sex in their hideout.

[–] dark_frances 8 years ago

He must have been. He was the seventh son, coming home to revenge his mother's husband and to kill the atrocious god who brought him into existence. This is why he cries before killing the patriarch. He can't deliver the village from evil, because the evil had roots too deep, both genetically and psychologically, in every family living there. Maybe he managed to save the last bride, but he still had committed patricide to do it. He was the lonely rider, the sinnerman, lost to the ways of the lord, caught in a cruel game of fate and will of men.

there's a highway that is curling up like smoke above her shoulder