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I don't think "Lone Star" is as much about history as it is our perceptions of history. Do we want to glorify our past or forget it? It's appropriate that the movie is set in the West because old movies about The West have a clear bad guy and good guy with nothing in between. Each subplot in the movie dealt with characters who tried to view their world in an either/or fashion. If Sam Deed's father wasn't lilly white, he had to be all bad. Is Big O's grandson African American or Native American. Does it have to be one or the other? The movie is filled with questions like this. I think the movie is about trying to make sense of our lives in a Postmodern World where the answers to our questions aren't as black and white as they seemed to be. Think of Charley Wade as a symbol of the past we want to forget and Buddy Deeds as the symbol of the past we want to glorify. And the point is, it isn't as simple as that.
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