When I was watching the movie, I was thinking, who does the unforgivable in the title refer to? Is it the cowboy who scratched the whore's face? Is it Billy? Or the protagonist himself? I couldn't find an answer until I read it.
The film shows a real western world. There is no order. Whoever shoots well and has the guts can survive. It also obeys the rules. The two sides will shout at each other. Without absolute justice and evil, can the most innocent prostitute really be right? Why should the evil done by one person buy the lives of two people? Does the evil he committed really need to be repaid with his life? I don't think so. I do think that the cowboy who was a sidekick died unjustly and lost his life in vain. In fact, the prostitutes hired murderers to kill because of anger at the sheriff’s actions. They didn’t treat them as human beings at all. They were the property of the shopkeeper. Even if they lost a few horses, they were given to the shopkeeper. There will be no follow-up.
The sheriff is not an absolute villain either, as he himself said before his death, I shouldn't have ended up like this. In a chaotic world, it is understandable for the sheriff to use violence to maintain order, but he has encountered a male protagonist who is more arrogant than him.
On the contrary, the male protagonist is the biggest villain in the film. The subtitles at the beginning of the film say that he is a thief and a murderer. He himself confessed to killing women and children, and his hands were covered in blood. Going to kill the two cowboys was also for money, not justice, but the male protagonist was too charismatic. A murderous killer felt like a lone hero, making the audience forget the crime he committed, and instead Come and support him.
The overall feeling is that in the film, there is no distinction between good and evil, only strong and weak, and there is no heinous person. I still don't understand who the unforgivable refers to?
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