The Marksman REVIEW
Former U.S. Marine Corps sniper, Jim Hanson has a dying ranch along the Mexican border. As a consequence, he sees undocumented aliens making their way over the border fence and when he does, he reports them. Not maliciously. Not is some racist way. But simply as a matter of law-abiding principle. And then, a young Mexican boy jumps out in front of his truck as he is driving along the fence with his dog. His days of “minding his own business” are over and the film tells the story.
Jim Hanson is what we might call “an unwilling Samaritan” who is forced to keep doubling down on his first reluctant act of altruism. He is not capable of handing a child and a child’s mother over to a drug cartel. Soon he is not capable of letting the child get sent back to Mexico to be murdered. And over the next few days, we see him making one sacrifice after another as he begins to see this boy in a new light. Over a few days in the truck, Hanson begins to see that the important division in this world is not between those who are Mexican citizens and those who are American citizens. It is between people in this world who care about people, and people in this world who don’t.
It is a shift in paradigms that will cost him his house, his, dog, his truck, his money, his time, and eventually, plot spoiler, his life. I wonder if all Samaritans start out reluctantly.
Question for Comment: Have you ever gone from a reluctant Samaritan to sacrificing a lot?
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