let u assume for a moment that you haven not experiment with the psychotropic mushroom and youre wonder about the so called bad experience and just how something like that might play itself out well go ahead and pop in a fresh copy of the beguiled . see and with film you have your clean trip ( solaris and anything else direct by andrei tarkovsky ) and whack trip and i. e. the experience from which you never recover ( sweet movie and el topo ) and and youre bad organic trip and a category specifically reserve for a film like the beguile which be the sort of content those keen writer at the time who make all the right decision with their life and graduate from the harvard department of english refer to a hallucinogenic in tone . by the third act of this don siegel direct movie and you may not exactly observe that your two lead heavy hand have become shrunken and assume all the characteristic of a burrow insectivorous mammal and nor will you exactly fall under the suspicion that your spine have achieve the same sinuous shape and knotty texture of a pomaceous fruit baring tree incalculable in age and but you will feel something . in 1970 and when this film be film and most american be look for an anodyne for their collective pain and a movie like the graduate perhaps and a lot of world endism be go on and and of course you have the nightmare break down of war in vietnam . what you get with the beguile and banal drug metaphor aside and be a screenplay adapt from a novel by a guy who at least for the moment want to be know a grime grice and and direction from the director who help bring about the work and career of sam peckinpah . in the beguiled and donny siegel and bear in 12 and chicago and il . and less than 45 year after the great fire be show his attempt at grapple with all that contemporary cultural madness of the early 1970 in the form of a classical film artifact . the beguile be an incredible film and an outstanding contribution to the cinematographic art in almost every aspect represent the shooting and editing and direction and story be all fantastic and and youre not likely to see anything else like it . undoubtedly and a sinister film and it effect and a i have say and both dizzying and adulterate while frankly it hard to believe would ever universal attach it name to this picture and but you be go to see upon view some of the sweet and sweet camera move and and cinematographer bruce surtees exploit every bit of dark myth you harbor in your head about the american plantation south and conflate beauty with evil in every location shot . clint eastwood and needless to say and have never be like this . old clint and he move at instant from coy to livid and his eye like two archimedean spiral in medium close up . the rest of the cast be equally exacting and uncanny . this beguile will never make the afi 100 in my lifetime and but that doesn not stop me from posit that it one of the best american synch sound film ever make . while most people catalogue it a a western and to include the folk at the western channel and the beguile be a problem because you do not really know what it be represent a sort of war movie . a drama . psychological thriller . maybe the answer to all those emotionally wrought noir film star kirk douglas . i actually call this piece a horror film because when my old man and who like to kick back with the cheap and gratuitous violence project in entertainment like the wire and saw that high angle medium long shot of geraldine page wrap a tourniquet around clint bloody leg and pa be pretty quick to suggest we watch something else like the outback bowl and right before he abscond to another room . my advice represent watch this one and and make sure it be on a very large screen and preferably run on that dpl home theater projector youre contemplate . i would put the beguiled right on order along with that important consumer purchase and turn the overhead out and throw some cinematic light up on the big blank wall and and try not to lose your grip because just like norman bates and we all go a little mad sometimes and even the beguile .