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I have just seen "Dead Man" for the second time on tape and I regret not seeing it in the theater. This is really the only Jarmusch film I can say I have liked, so I cannot be grouped as a blind fan of his. "Dead Man" has not left me since I first saw it some two months ago. I have recommended it to friends (one actually rented the video - "It had its moments," he said) very strongly. While I have a problem with a few of the scenes (Mitchum's, the slapstick with the marshalls, the Molina scene at the trading post), I believe that Jarmusch is smart enough to have some point in mind here. If the pat anti-Christian scene with Molina rings false, I believe that Jarmusch is parodying the proliferation of the same theme in the 'acid' westerns of the early '70s. The film is made up of many disparate elements, but somehow melds together to create a very moving film experience.
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