Unforgivable grossed $160 million worldwide. Not released in China. Cost $100 million (found online, it feels inaccurate.) Estimated within $0.3 billion). Genre: Western, Drama. Directed by: Clint Eastwood. Producer country: United States. Released in 1992.
It's an American Western. I watched this film because it is said that the script of the film was circulated in Hollywood for 20 years before it was finally made into a film. The early stages of the film are a bit slow-paced, but the later stories are wonderful.
It's a classic Western. Its greatest advantage lies in the meticulous and meticulous portrayal and depiction of human nature. The film simultaneously deals with the complex relationship between several groups and within them, a gang of sheriffs, a gang of bounty hunters, a gang of bandits, and a gang of prostitutes, as well as a complex mentality within the 3 bounty hunters, several complex interest groups entangled together, loyalty and betrayal, friendship and kindness, interests and justice, the warmth and filth of human nature, ugliness and brilliance at the same time, depicting lifelike, profound and moving, and is also the most wonderful part of the whole play.
The mentality of the 3 bounty hunters is portrayed in detail. Clint had long since washed his hands and did not dry, but in order to earn money to support his family, he reluctantly went to war. But before the battle, he was seriously ill, and he had the idea of retreating and hesitating. After seeing the prostitute who was harmed, he strengthened his belief in killing the bandits. Clint, because of his lack of physical fitness, pulls up his old friend Morgan. Morgan had washed his hands of his hands for many years, but for the sake of his old friend, he decided to participate, but he timidly withdrew in the middle of the battle, and after being caught by the sheriff, Morgan was loyal to his old friend and tortured to death.
The bounty hunter Cowboy tried to pull clint Eastwood because of his poor eyesight, but asked Clint to look at the bandits and do it himself. The little cowboy initially claimed to be a veteran, but he was hesitant to face the bandits, and eventually fired three shots in a row. Finally, he admitted that he had never killed anyone before, which was the first time, and said that he would never do it again. Although several prostitutes are at the bottom of society, they are also righteous, raising money to avenge their sisters, and even taking the initiative to provide free services for bounty hunters for revenge.
After the bounty hunter Clint hits the bandit cowboy, the cowboy shouts thirst for water, and Clint asks the bandit's accomplice to deliver water, declaring that he will not shoot. That's a rip-off. Although the screenwriter wants to express Clint's complicated mentality, here and now, it is a bit too much, and it is nonsense. In fact, the most appropriate measure of treatment at this time is acquiescence. That is, when the gang of bandits went to deliver water, if the little cowboy hunter was ready to aim and shoot, Clint silently stopped it.
The film uses a large dialogue between Sheriff Bill Jr. and the writer to describe in detail a duel that Bob once had. Such a plot does not appear at all in today's movies. If it is really necessary, it will be expressed in the form of images now, and it will never be told in large sections.
But the plot after this dialogue is wonderful, the sheriff gives the writer a gun, saying that if the writer can shoot himself, he and Bob can leave. The writer didn't dare to shoot, but he didn't expect the writer to say whether he could give the gun to Bob. But what I didn't expect was that Bob didn't dare to take the gun.
The writers who appear in the film give us some inspiration. Originally, in Westerns, there was no writer or anything, but this film appeared a writer who was incompatible with the atmosphere of Westerns, which brought a lot of unexpected plots, adding a different flavor to the traditional Fight and Kill Westerns, which is worth learning. What if we replaced writers with doctors? painter? musician? Wait, is it possible to bring a colorful story with different moods?
From the Internet, the investment cost of this film is 100 million US dollars. Judging from the scenes and props filmed, I feel that this number is problematic. Because we refer to 1994's "The Shawshank Redemption", it costs only $25 million; compared with the 1990 Western film "Dancing with Wolves", it costs only $22 million. The cost of this film should not vary much, not more than $30 million.
The film has several veteran actors. Clint Eastwood (The Golden Trifecta, The Covered Bridge Dream, Million Dollar Baby), Morgan Freeman (The Shawshank Redemption, Batman, The Seven Deadly Sins, The Incredibles, etc.). Morgan Freeman, in particular, appears more as a supporting character, and whenever he appears, there are almost no bad films. There is also the prostitute Francis Fisher, who played the mother of the heroine Ruth in "Titanic".
The film won best picture at the 65th Academy Awards in 1993. Of all the reviews, I think Empire magazine's assessment is the most accurate: the film is the last great Western, and it will never be surpassed. Among the top 10 Westerns listed in an online review, this film ranked first.
However, from the box office, because the Westerns were released relatively early and the themes were more violent, the overall box office was not high. The highest is probably Dancing with Wolves ($420 million, 1989), and Django Rescued ($420 million, 2012). The film's $160 million box office is ok in westerns.
In terms of the portrayal of human nature, this film is almost incomparable. However, because the theme of this film is full of blood, violence, crime, prostitutes, etc., especially its theme has been far outside the law, it is difficult for such films to get the support of mainstream public opinion, and it is not simple to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. From the screenwriter's point of view, this film is like a bright pearl, but unfortunately it is obscured by the restrictive theme.
(All pictures in this article are from the internet)