Unforgiven By Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven juxtaposes the beauty of the western frontier with the carnage the people living inside cause. Eastwood conveys the beauty of the west through a series of breathtaking establishing shots throughout Unforgiven most notably to begin and end the film. In doing so, Eastwood conveys the ability of nature to contain the carnage inside of William Munny (Clint Eastwood). In theory, the isolation the beginning and ending establishing shots convey protect the world from the violence Munny’s capable of expressing. Therefore, the lack of human interaction outside his family keeps Munny from being the killer he used to embody; Eastwood allows the beauty of nature to soak up Munny’s sins to protect the western frontier from his