John Sayles describes his new film, Lone Star, as a story about borders. It is set in Texas, which Sayles explains is unique among the United States in that it was once its own country. It was a republic formed in a controversial and bloody way. And its struggles didnt end with the Civil War. There is a kind of racial and ethnic war that has continued. That continuing conflict comes into the clearest focus aroundthe border between Texas and Mexico. But this geographical boundary is only one aspect of the films concern with borderlines. In a personal sense, Sayles comments, a border is where you draw a line and say This is where I end and somebody else begins. In a metaphorical sense, it can be any of the symbols that we erect between one another sex, class, race, age.

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