Unforgiven story
Unforgiven is a 1992 American Western film starring, directed, and produced by Clint Eastwood, and written by David Webb Peoples. The film tells the story of William Munny, an aging outlaw and killer who takes on one more job, years after he had turned to farming. The film co-stars Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and Richard Harris.
25 total · 1 choice · 8 major · 16 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| the desire for vengeance | choice | The title alludes to two different pursuits of revenge. In the first, the closely-knit prostitutes of a frontier town brothel put a $1000 bounty on the head of the cowboy (and his friend) who cut up the face of one of their own, leaving her disfigured and without a proper livelihood. In the second, the reformed outlaw William Munny sought sweet revenge against the town sheriff who beat Munny's long-time partner in crime to death during the course of a brutal interrogation. |
| coping with being disfigured | major | The brothel worker Delilah Fitzgerald was left with disfiguring scars to her face by Quick Mike's knife attack. |
| coping with the death of a spouse | major | William Munny's dearly departed wife was never far from his thoughts. He gazed wistfully at his departed wife's photograph, and later laid flowers at her grave. He refused Delilah's offer of freebie sex on account that he was "married". |
| friendship | major | The old friends William Munny and Ned Logan reunited for one last score. The grizzled, old gunslinger William Munny ultimately warmed up to cocky the Schofield Kid. |
| having a skeleton in the closet | major | The legendary outlaw William Munny had given up the booze and was living an honest life on a small pig farm with his two young children. |
| humans in pairs | major | The reformed outlaws William Munny and Ned Logan reunited for one last score. |
| law enforcement | major | Sheriff Little Bill ruled over the frontier town with an iron fist. Much of the story concerned Little Bill's efforts to thwart bounty hunters from taking the lives of the two cowboys that he'd let off with a slap on the write for mutilating a local brothel woman. |
| life in the American Wild West | major | The viewer is shown gunslingers, frontier town brothels, and other trappings of the wild, wild west. |
| prostitution | major | The story follows the closely-knit prostitutes of frontier town brothel as they seek to avenge one of their own getting permanently disfigured by a patron. The viewer is shown a window into their lives, including the dangers they faced on the job, their low status in society as exemplified by the sheriff writing them off as property of the brothel owner, their using of deodorant powered before sex to presumably suppress the stench that came from not taking regular baths, etc. |
| alcohol abuse | minor | William Munny had given up drinking, that is, until Little Bill brutally killed Munny's best friend, Ned. |