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Essay / Good versus evil in the film Unforgiven directed by...
The 1992 film Unforgiven, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, has a central theme of good versus evil in which good overcomes evil. evil by bringing justice to those who are wicked. Munny was no longer the vicious murderer he was in the past and now wishes to bring justice to the evil men who hurt innocent prostitute Delilah and her friend Ned. The film is by no means quite the traditional Western film, as Eastwood's character, Will Munny, has not always been a moral man. Nonetheless, Will Munny, through the use of violence, sets out to balance the battle of good and evil by ensuring that bad men get what's coming to them, even though Munny is no saint himself. Munny knows that death is what he deserves for everyone. terrible things he has done in the past. Several times throughout the film, Munny's violent past is brought up; including the fact that he killed, sometimes for no reason at all, innocent women and children. Munny does not glorify his past actions but he also does not deny the fact that they happened. His character just wants to get away from them. He ...