clint eastwood's most successful film, and indeed one of the most successful films of all time (critically at least) is one that i hadnt personally revisited for almost ten years. im a big fan of westerns, and have always considered john ford's 'the searchers' (1956) to be the piece de resistance example of the post-modern western, pre-dating unforgiven for the best part of forty years. in retrospect, rather than considering unforgiven to be 'the searchers' lesser, i should have considered it to be a post-modern take on a different genre of film. i was naive to think of a genre as well worn as the western to be as short sighted as just that - a genre, when i fact its much more.
clint eastwood plays william munny, a retired gunslinger tempted back into the field with the premise of one last job. what follows is a seering examination of the western genre. im looking at this film in much greater detail in a few months.
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