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As both director and star, Clint Eastwood strips away decades of Hollywood varnish applied to the Wild West, and emerges with a series of harshly eloquent statements about the nature of violence.
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As both director and star, Clint Eastwood strips away decades of Hollywood varnish applied to the Wild West, and emerges with a series of harshly eloquent statements about the nature of violence.
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Dedicated to his mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood's 1992 Oscar-winner examines the mythic violence of the Western, taking on the ghosts of his own star past. Disgusted by Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett's decree that several ponies make up for a cowhand's slashing a whore's face, Big Whiskey prostitutes, led by fierce Strawberry Alice (Frances Fisher), take justice into their own hands and put a $1000 bounty on the lives of the perpetrators. Notorious outlaw-turned-hog farmer
Aug 3, 1992 Wide
Mar 26, 1997
Warner Bros. Pictures
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Eastwood's meditation on age, repute, courage, heroism -- on all those burdens he has been carrying with such good grace for decades.
One of Unforgiven's assets is the way it overturns conventions, taking the man who is typically the hero and making him the villain, while transforming the traditional bad guy into a sympathetic protagonist.
A classic Western for the ages.
There's not much dramatic urgency apart from the revisionist context.
Unforgiven is a most entertaining western that pays homage to the great tradition of movie westerns while surreptitiously expressing a certain amount of skepticism.
That implacable moral balance, in which good eventually silences evil, is at the heart of the Western, and Eastwood is not shy about saying so.
The great Orson Welles once stated that Clint Eastwood was the most underrated filmmaker in America, and the sobering footnote is that he passed away in 1985, well before Eastwood began to be taken seriously as an artist by most critics and moviegoers.
The film at its heart is the first in a line of revisionist superhero movies.
Eastwood's best film -- a compelling study of the shame and guilt that attends violence, of the rule of the mighty over the weak and of courage and cowardice.
Violent Oscar winner shatters myths of the Old West.
Unforgiven began Clint Eastwood's current apology tour for his cinematic violence.
Arguably the greatest western since Sam Peckinpah hung up his stirrups.
Ironically, the ultimate Western of all was made decades after its hayday. This is captivating for all, not just fans of the genre.
A rigorous deconstruction of both fictitious violence and Eastwood's own career as a trigger-happy 'hero.'
Unforgiven feels authentic, and for a Western there's no greater compliment.
Dark and somber in thematics and visuals, this Western is a personal work for Eastwood, in which he desconstructs his own mythic violent image, one that made him a star in the 1960s.
In this dark, timeless terrain, the film achieves a magnificent intensity.
...a delicate yet brutal balance of real West versus reel West. (20th Anniversary Blu-ray Book edition)
A complex and haunting Old-West morality tale...Thanks Clint, for once again making my day.
An ex-gunslinger comes out of retirement to collect the bounty on a pair of cowpokes who disfigured a young prostitute. Clint Eastwood directs and stars in a deconstruction of the myth of the old west that examines the kind of man who would exist in a society which provides mean drunks and arrogant, prideful boys with
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