Film: Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven"

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This paper explains that, in "Unforgiven", Clint Eastwood plays William Munny, a former bounty hunter who reluctantly strikes out for his career's final coup de grace - the revenge killing of two men who have maimed a prostitute. The author points out that, hardened by experience, embittered by his fall from the righteous life, Munny eventually gives in to the belief that life is unfair, that men don't get what they deserve and that the world is a hard, cold place. The paper concludes that Munny, portrayed as a fallen soul, who pays for the sins of his past by repeating his past; isn't the brilliant marksman or the long arm of the law but rather a sad alcoholic who wishes he could change his past.

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"Once the partners have reconnoitered with the Kid, Munny again must face his past. The Kid is holds him in a kind of naive reverence and reminds him of his earlier escapades, which the Kid has heard from his Uncle Pete. To these stories, Munny shrugs, looks away and simply says, "I don't recollect it." Yet when the trio arrives in Big Whiskey, and Munny falls prey to a fever, he remembers his past in ample clarity. In a hallucination he sees the ghosts of men he's killed, the angel of death with "snake eyes," and his wife's head being eaten by worms. To Logan and the Kid, he confesses that he's really "scared of dying." The Kid is shattered by the demise of his hero and calls him a "broken-down pig farmer." "

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