DETAILED NOTES ON THE CAGE OF DYING

On paper, this story feels extremely Schrader-ish, evoking important illustrations or photos and themes from before in The author-director's very long career. Chief among these is sight of an emotionally or bodily tormented and socially maladjusted loner, partly modeled on Ethan Edwards in "The Searchers," who embarks with a mission of vengeance th