西部电影,通常用二元对立的方法来表现许多对立的价值观和矛盾情感。如生与死、爱与恨、善与恶、男性与女性、文明与野蛮、压制与自由,社会、家庭与个人等等。西部电影将这些对立的观念通过引人入胜的故事、勇敢智慧的英雄和赏心悦目的影像来表达,并且最终的结果是好人好命,善战胜了恶,极大满足了观众的一相情愿。 Western cinema often expresses many opposing values ​​and contradictory emotions through binary opposition. Such as life and death, love and hate, good and evil, men and women, civilization and barbarism, oppression and freedom, society, family and individuals and so on. Western cinema expresses these contradictory ideas through engaging stories, brave wise heroes and pleasing images, and the end result is good-natured, good-natured evil, which greatly satisfies the audience's mutual willingness.