It's not a Western in the traditional sense, because it subverts all the elements that often appear in Westerns, so all my expectations were shattered. What do we usually see in Westerns? Two cowboys stand opposite each other, with swords drawn, righteous triumphing over evil between lightning and flint? Well, it's fair to say that this movie turns that whole thing upside down. The story of an old killer in his twilight years who raised pigs in a remote mountain for a living, and reappeared in the rivers and lakes by chance. Look at this introduction, it should be very handsome.
However, his riding was difficult, and his marksmanship was also inaccurate. Haven't touched these things in 11 years. This is how I embarked on a bounty hunter journey. Because the pigs in the family are sick, it is difficult to support the family, and there are two children to support. All of this is the helplessness of a middle-aged man, plus the "prey" sounds really heinous.
The "prey" slashed the woman's face with a knife, but I don't think that's the original sin. The original sin was the favor and injustice of Inspector Bill Jr. In his eyes, they were no different from livestock, and it was enough to pay the boss a few horses. He didn't even whip the "prey" and received almost no punishment. This angered the women, who decided to pay the bounty to get rid of the two men.
So all of this comes from the injustice of little Bill, the most unforgivable injustice
The old killer William brought in his former partner sharpshooter Ned to help. At the same time, little Bill knew that the women had issued a bounty to get rid of the two people and then blocked the town. Everyone who came to the town had to disarm, and an Englishman was also attacked. Beaten up, and unsurprisingly, William, the uninvited guests, were beaten up too. But the plan was successfully completed. Ned saw that the young man who had been offered a bounty was unable to start, and he rode back to his hometown. Unexpectedly, he was caught by the townspeople of Little Bill and was forced to confess to death. It was really ironic. .
In order to avenge his old friend, William drank a whole bottle of whiskey after 11 years of abstinence and rushed back to town to teach Bill a deep lesson.
The film's director and star, Clint Eastwood, who was born in 1930, began to enter Hollywood in the 1950s, and began to emerge in the late 1950s with a performance in a Western TV series, Rawhide. He has since returned to the screen, starring in nearly 40 films by the 1990s, and began his directorial career in the 1970s. Eastwood is known for playing the tough guy on screen and has become a public icon for the good and the bad. His successful works include a large number of police and gangster films represented by "Dirty Harry" and several famous "Spaghetti Westerns" directed by Italian director Sergio Leone, such as "Good, Evil and Ugly". "Wait. His own directed westerns include classics from the 1970s and 1980s such as "Highland Rider" and "The Pale Rider". Referring to Munny, the protagonist of his "Unforgiven," Eastwood points out that what he is trying to achieve through the character is the denial of violence -- the inability of one to re-choose oneself because of past sins the road, only to fall back into the vortex of violence. On the other hand, the French magazine Cahier de Cinéma attributed the film to an exposure and criticism of American interventionism from a more political perspective.
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