Not an old man's sunset elegy

Bernita 2022-04-24 07:01:02

It's already August, and the weather in Chongqing is still hot as usual. Recently, I got otitis media, and I can't sleep at night because of the pain. So I can only read the old movies, and there is no one who has not slept so late. "Unforgiven" by Clint. Eastwood directed and starred in a Western film. At the beginning of watching the movie, I thought it was a story about the last elegy of the sunset cowboy, because the male protagonist has such a temperament, mature, forbearance, and the whole body is full of the loneliness of an old man, which can't stop making people fascinated. But after watching the movie, I felt that the director's intention was too simple and too unusual. The male protagonist William used to be a drunken murderer. In his words, he killed everything alive. But it is such a person who married a well-educated lady as his wife. This is the one thing that everyone does not understand the most. At the beginning of the story, William's wife is dead, and he is also old, raising pigs and selling cattle in a dilapidated farm. His past glory is still alive in other people's memories, but no one will believe that he is the murderer he once was. . One day a boy called a killer came to him to kill two cowboys who had been rewarded. William calls his old friend and killer boy on a desperate journey. This is actually a positive energy movie against war and murder, but the director has always expressed it in another way. The male protagonist is old, but the people he killed when he was young often haunt him like a nightmare. He decides to never kill again, but he still embarks on the path of killing for the bounty. After watching the movie, we may like the male lead, because he is really cool. But I have to say that what the male protagonist did was unjust and wrong. There is also the sheriff who played the villain in the mid-term. Although he killed the friend of the male protagonist, he was not guilty of death. And cowboys with bounties for insulting prostitutes, they all deserve to die like normal people. But they all died and were killed by the male protagonist. Everyone who kills or is killed seems to have a reason why they have to do it, but in the end only the dead will come to repentance, I shouldn't have died, and some things could have been avoided. In fact, I want to say that this is a movie that only men can understand. The forbearance, unwillingness, unforgiveness of myself, and the final struggle. They are deeply mixed with the soft soul in the heart of every man. Why this movie is called unforgivable, I think because everyone's actions are actually unforgivable. When studying history, we will always have a righteous side and an unjust side. In fact, every side that participates in the battle is unforgivable. I think that's what the director wanted to tell us in the end! I have to say that watching a lot of special effects bombardment, and occasionally watching such a pure story-telling action film, is so back to basics. So I can understand it's best picture Oscar. This is a shootout film for men that is not like Wolf Warrior 2. There are also many films of the same type, but there are not many films that are as honest as this film and have little commercial elements. I want to give 5 stars. "Unforgivable" / Paragraph

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Unforgiven quotes

  • Strawberry Alice: Just because we let them smelly fools ride us like horses don't mean we gotta let 'em brand us like horses. Maybe we ain't nothing but whores but we, by god, we ain't horses.

  • The Schofield Kid: Like I was saying, you don't look no meaner-than-hell, cold-blooded, damn killer.

    Will Munny: Maybe I ain't.

    The Schofield Kid: Yeah, well, Uncle Pete says you was the meanest goddamn son-of-a-bitch alive, and if I ever wanted a partner for a killin', you were the worst one. Meaning the best, on account as your's as cold as the snow and you don't have no weak nerve nor fear.

    Will Munny: Pete said that, huh?

    The Schofield Kid: Yeah, yeah he did. I'm a damn killer myself. 'Cept, uh, I ain't killed as many as you because of my youth.