Best Picture Nominee Train Dreams is a Beautiful Movie About America’s Sins

The Best Picture nominee Train Dreams features a rarity in Western fiction: a protagonist with little agency and even less interior life. Where most stories, especially American stories about men, the heroes are strivers and individualists—the untamable Huckleberry Finn, the self-made Jay Gatsby, the indomitable Charles Foster Kane—Robert Grainier of Train Dreams simply seems to […] The post Best Picture Nominee Train Dreams is a Beautiful Movie About America’s Sins appeared first on Den of Geek.