Writing about Clint Eastwood's UNFORGIVEN for Reverse Shot's "Great Beyond" symposium

“But revenge is intrinsic to cinematic storytelling because it represents our most primal human expression of justice. Eastwood ultimately gives us, his audience, what we have always come to expect from the Man with No Name. In so doing he confronts us—without judging us—with the inherent moral deficit of the western genre and of the movies themselves: their natural, instinctive reliance on violence as entertainment, when violence is the ruin of everyone.”

I wrote about Clint Eastwood’s 1992 western masterpiece, UNFORGIVEN, from an outsider’s point of view, for Reverse Shot’s foreign culture symposium: “Great Beyond”.