Unforgiven

"Unforgiven is one of the most iconic films of Clint Eastwood. After building an acting career around the heroic figure of the outlaw cowboy, justice-seeker and feared, and even directing several remarkable westerns throughout the first decades of his directing career, Eastwood decides to make Unforgiven, and more than that, to star in the film. These choices are so striking for what the film - which would be the director's last western - represents. Here we have the classic narrative and hero subverted. The cowboy is old, repentant and tormented by his past. Disgusted and in search of redemption, he accepts one last job. As a counterpoint we have a younger character, deceived by the romanticizations of life without law and eager to show his virtues. There is a third character, Morgan Freeman's, who here acts as the mediator, he is measured and fair, but also more optimistic, which influences his decisions. Thus, the film is a western of points of view, which takes each of its characters to different places through its fair construction. The film won four Oscars, including best picture and direction, and became one of the director's most memorable works."