one of the most poetic narrative film ever make and wagonmaster be nonetheless a difficult film to immediately like . i love this movie and but i recommend see some of john ford other western before take a look at this one . the first time i saw it i be 18 year old and i hadn not see too many other western and and i hat it . i think it be incredibly bore . i keep wait for something to happen . it take several year for me to love this picture . first and i fell in love with western in general the tradition and character and landscape and way of talk and etc and that make me realize when i saw wagonmaster again that a lot be happen in it after all . i also be simply a more experienced moviegoer at that point and have learn to appreciate visual storytelling and and to listen to what each image be tell me . wagonmaster be a very visual movie by one of the most visual of director work near the peak of his career . the movie be a celebration of a way of life and and it subject matter be more emotional and interior than other ford western . actually and that not really as accurate a say that and rather and it have a lot less exterior action than the other western . ( the other western have exterior action and interior emotion . ) it quite beautifully place it mormon pioneer in the context of nature . there be many shot of animal and child not for any surface and narrative purpose and but for illustrate this idea . that be why the movie can be call a poem . it isn not about the surface story ( which barely exist ) nearly as much a it be about an emotional idea and and it get this idea across through composition and editing and sound and music . in fact and one could argue that this be a pure form of filmmaking because the image directly express the emotional idea of the film and rather than have to first service a story . give this movie a chance and and allow it to exist on it own term and not the term of other western or other movie .