The performance of Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman and Ensemble was so believable that I found myself lost within the film. I loved the story and the message of this film. A theif and a murderer that stood for love, loyalty, and respect for women. This widower was doing everything for his children. Although he was carrying out a hit to claim a bounty for prostitutes, he was doing so for to bring justice to a woman. She was sliced up face and body by two savage cowpolk and he wanted to make it right.
Clint Eastwood, with his long-time partner Morgan Freeman, and a random near-sighted kid go off to make things right. I loved the sub-plots and intensity of it. Especially at the very end. I was touched, and left the film feeling inspired. The plot of Unforgiven reminded me of Les Miserables, but the film was so original still. I give this movie five stars and two thumbs up. It blew me away and easily made it onto my favorite movies list.
The fact that they made no mention that Morgan Freeman's Character Ned was black was very heart-warming but I was kind of confused. Since given the setting he would have been treated differently by the surrounding cast because of his color, but it was nice to show that he was equal. A Hollywood feat of getting a negro man into a Western and to be treated as an equal, just as the early Jewish Movie Moguls integrated Jews into the caucasian population through their films. Maybe someday soon Asians and Latinos will also be equal. Perhaps they just have to wait a little longer since they came centuries after the caucasians, jews, and blacks. We could argue that the Native Americans and Latinos were here first, but that's a whole different controversial blog.
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