several time while watch this awful movie i think of bug bunny . after the movie be over i realize why i have these thought represent bug would occasionally reach into his body and pull out something he need to further the story . it could be a blowtorch and fully operative and or a bowling ball or a weapon . so too with three burial . when the story advance to the road aspect of the movie and we get urprise device like . find a blind man listen to a radio in the boonies somewhere in mexico . how this living alone and elderly impoverished sightless man be able to find the fuel to run the . presume . generator since his cancer ride son hadn not visit in six month be a different story problem . the sub professional screenwriter . of this movie . and arriaga and then reach for the blow torch again when the barry pepper character escape from captivity and enter a cave to hide only to be bite by a rattlesnake . . how this beat up man and dispirit and exhaust and malnourish and rid without a hat in the daytime mexican sun then sling over a horse and rid for unknown hour and over rough terrain and could survive a rattlesnake bite be another story whopper too . there be other fanciful invention like the one mention but on to other problem with this movie . repeat flashback can be acceptable in tell a story but only when the question be answer and would the story work well be tell in a more linear fashion . during the early part of three burial i be confuse several time when character i be just begin to learn about be time shift backwards . for this viewer and the confusion this cause wasn not worth the effort itself and the story would have be clear have they tell it straight forward . . plus and later on and this creaky device be just drop from the movie altogether . something else now represent be arriaga make a political statement by show virtually all of the white american a defectives in one way or another while all the latino be benign and generous and overall and good guy . more represent the character play by jones be certifiably insane . really weird guy . next represent in brief but numerous flashback they show the relationship between pete and melquiades a a deep one of mutual trust and affection . how then to deal with the duplicity of melquiades in tell pete about his non existent family in jimenez . be this something you would do to a good friend when talk about your death and how you would want your family notify . it pathological and call into question m. character . finally represent three burial take place . the final one and after all the tedious agony pete go through to have it occur and be a half as job with the body not even deeply or fully bury . the local animal would have his remains eat and spread all over the place and assuming of course and that there would be anything edible after all the amateur embalm that have take place . p represent why the need to show the corpse over and over again .