For @bwdr.bsky.social’s “What Is to be Done?” issue, I wrote about HIGH NOON—a film whose political voltage still hums in our own time. The film is a parable of civic abandonment, the fragility of conscience, and what happens when good people wait for someone else to act.

Many thanks to the folks over at @bwdr.bsky.social for letting me go long on John Sayles’s earnest investigation deep in the heart of Texas. So let’s hit the trail.

A face that reveals a lifetime of regret. A man realizing too late what he’s done, what he’s lost.