Unforgiven

The film is of the Old West. Like history, in the film women have less rights and privileges than man. An example for this is when the prostitute is cut up and all that happens is that her owner recieves horses. This shows that women is treated like animals. An interesting character is Schofield kid. He shows up to William Munny all tough and gives of the image of an omniscient character. However his true persona is revealed when he kills one of the people that cut up the prostitutes. Before this he claimed that he killed 5 people but this was false as he confessed that he just killed his very first person. This shows that killing another man, ending his life can have an everlasting affect no matter who you are. Also I think that the death of Logan was no coincidence for he is the only African American in the entire film. I believe this shows how the Old West viewed black people indirectly. However this view of black people is somewhat contradicted when Munny went to seek revenge for the death of his partner. He singlehandedly killed 5 cowboys. After doing so, he drank alcohol which went against his goal of never drinking alcohol again.