Chris Nicholson's Writing Weblog
December 28, 2004 • Tuesday
One of my favorite modern films, Unforgiven, has been added to the Library of Congress' National Film Registry.
Directed by Clint Eastwood and released in 1992, the film depicts a gripping story about William Munny, a retired, old-West gunslinger who turned from lawlessness years earlier after marrying. At the time of the story, Munny's wife has died and he's trying to raise their children on his own. Hard times force him to pursue one last bounty, despite the disdain for killing that has grown inside him.
When I first saw Unforgiven I considered it an anti-Western Western movie. It didn't glorify the murderous chaos of the old West. Rather, it showed the honest emotions that fueled the people — good and bad — who survived in the barely democratic society of America's frontier.
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