Peckinpah utilizes the relaxed censorship to establish a new vision of the Western, questioning and abandoning many of the idealistic virtues it had previously subscribed to; portrayal of gun violence, disparate sound effects, slow motion parallel editing; 144 min director's cut
Parting your soup is not a miracle, Bruce. It's a magic trick. A single mom who's working two jobs and still finds time to take her kid to soccer practice, that's a miracle. A teenager who says no to drugs and yes to an education, that's a miracle. People want me to do everything for them. But what they don't realize is *they* have the power. You want to see a miracle, son? Be the miracle.