"Jesse James" delves deep into the inner conflicts and emotions of every character. The narration neither detracts or adds to the tone, although there is one bit of bad editing that confused my friend as to whether the narrator was speaking or a man's voice had been dubbed poorly. The musical score does its job: to blend into the film so subtly that I cant imagine the images on the screen without it. The frozen Missouri/ Kansas landscapes are a treat for the eyes. I would sit through a ten hour "Jesse James" because of the excellent tone given out by director Andrew Dominik. Wow, does this film have style or what? The Assassination of Jesse Jamed by the Coward Robert Ford, is one of the longest titles I've ever seen for a film and the movie's run-time follows the same pattern. The shotgun would ignite, and Ella Mae would scream, but Robert Ford would only lay on the floor and look at the ceiling, the light going out of his eyes before he could find the right words. There would be no eulogies for Bob, no photographs of his body would be sold in sundries stores, no people would crowd the streets in the rain to see his funeral cortege, no biographies would be written about him, no children named after him, no one would ever pay twenty-five cents to stand in the rooms he grew up in. Over seven thousand signatures would eventually be gathered in a petition asking for O'Kelly's release, and in 1902, Governor James B. Edward O'Kelly would be ordered to serve a life sentence in the Colorado Penitentiary for second degree murder. Nothing but a vague longing for glory, and a generalized wish for revenge against Robert Ford. Edward O'Kelly came up from Bachelor at one P.M. He kept to his apartment all day, flipping over playing cards, looking at his destiny in every King and Jack. He received so many menacing letters that he could read them without any reaction except curiosity. Even as he circulated his saloon he knew that the smiles disappeared when he passed by. Narrator: He was ashamed of his persiflage, his boasting, his pretensions of courage and ruthlessness he was sorry about his cold-bloodedness, his dispassion, his inability to express what he now believed was the case- that he truly regretted killing Jesse, that he missed the man as much as anybody and wished his murder hadn't been necessary.