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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 10:52:43 -0500
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- From: Ens Alexander W Ellermann <ellerman@NORFOLK.NADN.NAVY.MIL>
- Subject: Unforgiven
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- Let me be the first with a rushed defense of Unforgiven:
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- Unforgiven is an astonishing film because it succeeds in delivering
- all the elements of a classic western while questioning the foundations upon
- which the notion of the classic western is based. This is the most human of
- Clint's westerns because, as with us other humans, no one is a clear cut char-
- acter. They all have their strong and weak points, and everyone is just doing
- as he can to get by. Even Morgan Freeman's character, who struck me as the
- noblest, cheats on his wife before the movie's over.
- The photography in the picture is excellent, with nifty juxtapositions
- between the "cinematic" scenes with sweeping setup shots and point of view
- images such as the empty whiskey bottle hitting the ground as Clint rides into
- town for revenge (not justice).
- Gotta cut it short. Have work to do.
- Alex
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