The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada is classified as a Western genre, but it is primarily about cross cultural communication between the USA and Mexico, friendship and ethics. It probes the Gringo's way of 'life': Surviving sense-less lives in demountables on a big meat quarry. Betrayal in a 'landscape of billboards'. Border Patrols and locals police the new Walls with bullets and participatory webcams. Tommy Lee Jones crosses the border from cowboy-land to a humane (land-)scape.