Unforgiven (1992) (Remastered)

[brian9229]

Originally Posted by Martoto

Yeah. It's wise to overlook the supposed message about gun control in order to fully enjoy Unforgiven.

(Apparently, people who want there to be no gun ownership and therefore significantly reduced risk of gun violence are just about as bad as people who want all the guns and want everybody to be shooting at each other all the time. And communists too.)

It helps that it makes absolutely no sense on those terms and therefore easy to disavow.

Clint and Morgan's characters are supposedly wise and responsible enough to own and use guns, but wind up killing men because the misogynist sheriff didn't give the girl that they disfigured any justice. And it winds up getting Morgan killed himself.

Hackman's character isn't a sadistic misogynist because he's pro gun control or vice versa.

There isn't any coherent suggestion that less gun control in Big Whiskey would have made things any better for the people that lived there.

It's a @$#&! Western dude!!