When law is lawless

Kailey 2022-03-15 09:01:01

"Clint Eastwood"

There is such a lyric in "Clint Eastwood" by Gorillaz, and I immediately connected them after reading "Unforgivable".

The society built in the film is an immature society ruled by law, Big Whiskey Town. The rules that govern the plot are: 1. Those who enter the town turn in weapons; 2. Prostitutes are private property; 3. Those who violate the law must compensate for their property or their lives. The power of judgment rests with the Sheriff Little Bill alone. Because these characteristics are extremely easy to be challenged, they can provide a good driving force for the film. The film also uses the fact that Little Bill hates killers as the driving force for his role.

Obviously, you indicated by law is lawless are prostitutes without human rights. I is the assassin on behalf of Dongmu, but for your survive, he killed the cowboy who did not directly harm the prostitute, which also caused Ned, who did not kill, to be killed. Torture to death.

So it did not conceal the fact that the violent movement itself would sacrifice innocent lives in order to show the justice of this anti-system and regain the human rights movement, but my little airport’s "Unemployment Resistance Song" also has the lyrics "This is a war but victory is not." Perhaps breaking the law is a manifestation of the unfairness of the legal system.” We always say that the price of violence against violence is self-willing and depraved in values. However, today, victory is even more impossible in the rules of the game where even if you walk or sit down, you are breaking the law.

In other words, it is impossible to seek a victory with stronger support.

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Extended Reading
  • Elza 2021-10-20 19:00:21

    Just like "Goodfella" for Coppola-style gangster movies, Dongmutou did just like Scorsese in front of the whole film: wash away the romantic color of traditional movies of the same genre, exposing its savage and rough original appearance; However, he re-established a monument with mythology in the later period, leaving an indelible legend; this also gave the film even the characteristics of a meta-movie, and the entire text can be regarded as a western film for dozens of years. Metaphor of decline and unwillingness to decline

  • Llewellyn 2021-10-20 19:00:25

    The Dongmu Film Festival is rare, the copyright is not easy, and the quality of the film is also high, thanks to the fact that the father rarely missed it. Western killer movies have a mixed world principle that is different from the general public. Even if they don't understand why the detectives obstruct bounty hunters in every way, it is not impossible to directly put the two sides in opposition to good and evil, but it is hard to say who is good and who is evil. Western cowboys and brutal villains have contributed many breath-holding moments to the audience. The director in front seems to be deconstructing the routine, and at the end he returns to the beloved lone hero. As of 1993, with this film winning BP and BD, Dongmu is just like killer William, enough to rely on his fame for the first half of his life.

Unforgiven quotes

  • Little Sue: He said how you was really William Munny out of Missouri... and Bill said "Same William Munny that dynamited the Rock Island and Pacific in '69 killin' women and children an' all?" And Ned says you done a lot worse than that, said you was more cold blooded than William Bonney or Clay Alisson or the James Brothers and how if he hurt Ned again you was gonna come an' kill him like you killed a U.S. Marshall in '73.

    Will Munny: And that didn't scare Little Bill though, did it?

    Little Sue: No, sir.

  • English Bob: Shit and fried eggs.