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Unforgiven

Clint Eastwood · 1992 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

Prostitutes in a Wyoming town raise a bounty after one of them is cut, and word of it reaches William Munny, a reformed killer failing at pig farming with two children to feed. He collects his old partner and a boastful young gunman and rides north, into a town run by a sheriff with firm views about visitors carrying guns. The western auditing its own legends and finding blood.

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Attributes

Genre
WesternTragedy
Theme
Justice & RevengeGuilt & ConscienceRedemptionDeath & Mortality
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
Anti-HeroAvengerWanderer
Plot structure
Revenge CycleIronic Reversal
Symbol / motif
The WoundRainThe Book / Manuscript
Conflict
vs Selfvs Person
Mode / tone
ElegiacTragic
Culture / tradition
Modern / American

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