The movie Unforgiven directed by Clint Eastwood, is a revistionist film to point out the flaws of the Western Genre for its usual excessive and unneccessary violence. However, the flaw of the western violence is, to me, not that big of a deal. Eastwood tried to show how thoughtless and uncivilized the genre dipicted the west through its use of woman abuse, gunslinging mentality, multiple killings, and the end-movie slaughtering. Sure, all of these things are bad, but hey, in the end the bad guys were all gone, and the good guys were still around to make things back to normal. Examples: English Bob- gone by getting the crap kicked out of him, Guy who cut whore- killed, guy who "owned" whores- killed, and corrupt sheriff-killed. All of these members of society represented the unjust, ruthless, stuid, and self promoting aspects of the town. All of the good guys, lived and went on, Munny-moved to San Fran, townfolk- not killed, whores- staying alive. The only good guy who wasnt eliminated was Munny's partner, Ned. Overall, I feel like the movie played a role in that it said yeah violence is bad but the people who use it for the wrong reason get whats coming to them.
This concept of the good guys winning relates in an almost inverse way today. Today, a lot of the times, the bad guys win. All of the "red tape" in the judicial system, all of the bureaurocratic inefficiency and most all of the liberals help the bad guys win and the good guys lose nowadays. The judicial system is corrupt in it takes years for trials and a good lawyer will get anyone out of anything, even if they are 100% guilty of a crime. Exibit A: OJ Simpson, Exhibit B: the GHB drug being used for raping women yet the accused not guilty because the woman was unconscious and couldnt say "no". Liberals help the issue with their "it isnt my fault" whining. Most liberals take a "victimized" stance on touchy issues to slither a way out. "Its not my fault I drank too much alcohol and hit a person with my car, its the bartender who sold me the drinks" but, "its not the bartenders fault, its the manufacturer who sold the alcoholic beverages to the car" and, "it cant be the manufacturers fault, becuase it was the government who gave them the permit to brew alcohol" and so on, and so on. If only we adopted a wild west gunslinging law to rid the world of the drug dealers, rapists, liberals, bureaucrats, and whiners, this country would be a much better place.
2 comments:
I would say that not many movies end with the bad guy winning simply because most people don't like that. I don't necessarily agree with that but the goal of most movies, with the exception of most independent films, is to make money. I agree with you, I also don't have a problem with seeing violence in movies because it is easy for me to disassociate with it.
hey, hey, I really thought when I first saw Unforgiven that it was seriously one of the best films of my life! but the whole discussion thing at the end of the movie...think it out a little longer and you can start to see some difrences in how you picture Clint Eastwood to be and how he actually is.
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