What does Salvadore Allende’s 9/11, Hank Williams, the JFK assassination, and an empathy for insects have in common? How does a stable democracy result in homosexuality, which leads, eventually, to fine quality cheeses? Writer-director hyphenate Martin McDonagh is here to tell all in Wild Horse Nine, a 1973 period piece buddy comedy spy film about mortality, which takes place mainly on tiny Easter Island. The film often plays like a superficially connected alternate-universe Burn After Reading (arguably the Coen’s most underrated and dismissed film) prequel, or sequel, or side-quel. But whatever. The point is, John Malkovich’s aging spy, Chris, is writing his memoirs on decades of destabilizing democracy, while on both a death-wish and a vacation, and it is going to be irreverent as fuck....
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