I Found It At the Movies: 1992—Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)

By Jeffrey Goodman
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/blog/item/i_found_it_at_the_movies_1992_unforgiven_clint_eastwood_20120103/
When I think about Unforgiven, I simply think of an extremely well-made film. Everything is top shelf: The acting, the writing and the directing. I know there is a critique of violence and a certain moral position taken in the movie, but that doesn't really connect with me all that much. What really gets me here is the theme of friendship and the incredibly moving bond between the characters played by Eastwood and Morgan Freeman. Eastwood is so adult, so patient, so restrained, that he stands out by not standing out. He's carrying on a certain tradition of classical moviemaking, and the further we get away from it, the more of a wonder it is that a non-postmodern work like this was able to gain so much attention.