: This story serves as a Western-themed retelling of the classic fable about the inability to cheat death, showing a man escaping one hanging only to face another.
The film also serves as a critique of American ideals like meritocracy and entitlement. subtitle The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) [7...
: The title character’s death serves as a dark visual gag and a reminder that even the most skillful and confident "hero" is eventually replaced by the next faster gun. : This story serves as a Western-themed retelling
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and the Nature of Evil : r/TrueFilm reinforcing it as the film's central
Each segment of the film concludes with a death, reinforcing it as the film's central, omnipresent theme.