Tonight we watched Unforgiven (#98 on AFI Top 100), the best picture Oscar winner from 1992. It's billed as the best western in the past 20 years. It starred Clint Eastwood (who won the Oscar for best director), Gene Hackman (Oscar winner for best supporting actor), Morgan Freeman and Richard Harris. It's all about "pullin' a trigger". The theme about how hard it is to kill a man, that it takes a certain coldness of heart to be able to do it, comes through pretty well. And Hackman's brutality as the law figure who doesn't want any gunman in his town causing trouble can cause you to flinch at the brutalness of it.
It's an honest look at what it meant to kill a man in the old west. B+.
It's an honest look at what it meant to kill a man in the old west. B+.
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