Unforgivable

Lamar 2022-03-22 09:01:09

"The pace is too slow and it's not pretty." "I like watching this movie. It's anti-genre, anti-drama climax, anti-hero, anti-violence." "It's also anti-hero, anti-violence, you didn't see that he killed them all in the end. "I was stunned, although I was thinking that yes, he killed them all, so what? I don't know how to answer. Then I thought about it again.
"Those two people shouldn't be killed, shouldn't die, especially the young man, who is a good man and did nothing. He even pulled the prostitute's face and gave it back to the prostitute." There is nothing to kill or not to kill, to die or not to die, and there is no good or bad person (the worst thing in the film is to kill the innocent protagonist when he was young, he killed so many people, and even forgot why he killed them). The two cowboys driving the cows, the arrogant sheriff and his men, and the protagonist's friends, shouldn't be damned. In the western movie, there are two elongated silhouettes under the golden sunset, the confrontational double guns, the tall, just and handsome protagonist solves the innocent villain. The happy story and the festival are no longer, and some are just myopic brothers first. The panic and horror after the second killing, the non-stop nightmare of the protagonist old man, the flowered head of the person killed in the dream and the corpse full of maggots. When violence comes, there is no distinction between right and evil. Violence is violence.
Dongmu plays the protagonist with awe-inspiring righteousness, and the real villain is regarded as a hero, which I have to say is ironic.

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Unforgiven quotes

  • Ned Logan: Hell, Will. We ain't bad men no more. Shit, we're farmers.

    Will Munny: Should be easy killing them, supposing they don't go on down to Texas first.

    Ned Logan: How long has it been since you fired a gun at a man, Will? Nine, ten years?

    Will Munny: Eleven.

    Ned Logan: Easy, huh? Hell, I don't know that it was all that easy even back then. And we was young and full of beans. I mean, if you was mad at 'em, Will, I mean. If they'd done you some wrong, I could see shooting 'em.

    Will Munny: We done stuff for money before, Ned.

    Ned Logan: Yeah, we thought we did. All right, so what did these fellas do? Cheat at cards? Steal some strays? Spit on a rich fella? What?

    Will Munny: No, they cut up a woman.

    Ned Logan: What?

    Will Munny: Yeah, they cut up her face, cut her eyes out, cut her fingers off, cut her tits, everything but her cunty, I suppose.

    Ned Logan: I'll be dogg - Golly, I guess they got it comin'. 'Course, you know, Will, if Claudia was alive you wouldn't be doin' this.

  • Little Bill Daggett: Look son, being a good shot, being quick with a pistol, that don't do no harm, but it don't mean much next to being cool-headed. A man who will keep his head and not get rattled under fire, like as not, he'll kill ya.

    W.W. Beauchamp: But if the other fella is quicker, and fires first...

    Little Bill Daggett: Then he'll be hurrying, and he'll miss. Look here...

    [stands and draws his gun]

    Little Bill Daggett: That's about as fast as I can draw, and aim, and hit anything more than ten feet away... 'less it's a barn.

    W.W. Beauchamp: But if he doesn't miss?

    Little Bill Daggett: Then he'll kill ya.

    [chuckles]

    Little Bill Daggett: Yeah, that's why there's so few dangerous men around like old Bob, like me. It ain't so easy to shoot a man anyhow, especially if the son-of-a-bitch is shootin' back at you. I mean, that'll just flat rattle some folks.