Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Unforgiven

The previous time I watched this - high school, probably - it was too early I think. I knew it was a 'revisionist' western but I'm not sure I'd seen any of the other kind before that, and I reckon it's only on this second pass (prompted by Passenger) that I picked up the ways in which it layers and complicates the more traditional narrative of the west and its heroes, not to mention its more general meditation on ageing, regret, and the limits in how much we can leave our past selves behind.