A few years ago, I made a film called “American Animals,” which is about a group of kids who commit a heist. They do it partly because of the financial benefits, but more because they want to see what lies on the other side of a line that should never be crossed. The main character in “Butcher’s Crossing,” Andrews, is in a similar kind of situation. Andrews is an educated guy—he’s a student at Harvard in the late eighteen-hundreds—but he feels like he doesn’t understand some important things. Like what hardship feels like, what it means to be challenged on a more essential level, and the essence of being a man. So, to try and gain that understanding, he leaves school and signs up for a buffalo hunt in Kansas—an experience that turns out to bring not knowledge but, rather, disillusionment.Days Without End