A journey to the West becomes a voyage through myth in Dead Man, in which Jim Jarmusch reinterprets the Western as a stark, introspective odyssey.

Johnny Depp plays an accountant who becomes a fugitive and wanders through a hostile frontier, accompanied by Gary Farmer’s enigmatic outsider. Filmed in stark black and white and accompanied by Neil Young’s austere, electric score, the film balances violence, stillness, and dry humor. The result is a restrained, revisionist film that reflects on violence, identity, and the loaded legacy of the American West.