Western Blog Post

UnForgiven, Directed by Clint Eastwood(1992)

William Munny(Clint Eastwood) was an outlaw that killed many people that didn't deserve it. He was an evil man, and he knew it. So he got married to a clean woman and she started to set him straight. He stopped killing, drinking and all the other bad things that he used to do. But then his wife dies, and he's on his own again.

William Munny keeps trying to convince himself that he truly is a changed man, and that he is forgiven from his past Sins. He keeps talking about how his wife straighten him out, in part to remind himself that he can't do those things anymore, and in part to convince himself that he has changed and isn't the evil man that he once was.

But as times for him and his children got tough, and he was struggling to make a living he was getting depressed because he wasn't able to support his family very well. Then when an offer to help a man kill two men that cut up a whore for money came along his old self showed a bit and he took the offer, something that would change his life forever.

He gets the crap beat out of him and chatches a fevor and almost dies. When he recovers he's kind of changed back into his old ways. He tells a whore that his wife is still alive, which shows that he needs even more convincing now to convince himself that he is a changed man.

When the time comes for them to kill a man, the other two can't do it, and so William Munny takes the Gun and shots the kid dead. It was a long, slow and painful ordeal. But Munny was able to do it. Although it is made clear that he's not as cold hearted as he used to be in that during the few minutes that it takes for the kid to die, it is obvious that Munny is uncomfortable with what he has done. The kid is asking for water and Munny gets mad at the kids friends for not getting him any water. Killing was hard but he did it.

Then later When Munny finds out that they killed Ned Logan(Morgan Freeman), even though he didn't do any of the killings. This pushes Will over the top. As he hears the details he grabs a bottle of whiskey and starts chugging it down. This shows that he truly hasn’t changed and isn’t forgiven from his past. Munny than goes into town, walks into the bar where the Sheriff and his men are and kills all of them in cold blood.

William Munny went back to his old ways. His wife only temporarily changed him, and now that she has been gone a few years when this circumstance comes up, he turns back to his old nature as a ruthless killer. He thought that he had been forgiven, that he had changed, but now it is made clear that nothing has really changed, he is still a murderer, he is still unforgiven.