With a compelling lead performance by Clint Eastwood, the movie “Unforgiven” was a great watch. Unforgiven was an extraordinary movie that achieves on essentially every level, where every character and scene are making you watch over and over again. The film was both stared and directed by Clint Eastwood, and written by David Peoples. It also stars Gene Hackman, Richard Harris, and Morgan Freeman. The story is about an aging outlaw that takes on one last job before permanently working on his farm with his family. It is a dark western where you see grisly forms of violence and the convoluted principles distorted into simplistic fables and myths of the Old Wild West. Unforgiven received for Academy Awards which were Best Film Editing, Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actor. Unforgiven was Clint Eastwood’s last western. The plot takes place in a town called Big …show more content…
One of the cowboys slashed up the prostitute’s face because she made an insult about his genitals. The cowboys have to pay a fine but that is it. The rest of the prostitutes do not feel like that was a justified punishment so they put a $1,000 bounty for the two cowboys. This is where Clint Eastwood’s character comes in to collect that bounty. Unforgiven grows into a tale of Old Western code and honor for the men and the main character who are inclined by greed, ill-conceived concepts of honor and glory, and financial necessity. The scenes shot in the film look amazing, open cold landscapes with wide skies that look phantasmagorical. One of my favorite scenes in the movie is when Little Bill says “I don’t deserve this. To die like this. I was building a house.” which Clint Eastwood’s character Munny responds “Deserve’s got nothin’ to do with it”. You see here that the inexorable ethical equilibrium where good overcomes evil is at the soul of this movie. The gunfights are great and I really enjoyed watching