Unforgiven, is a masterpiece. It gets right what almost every western gets wrong. It removes the “glory,” of killing people…
It delves into the minds of those who kill, and the irreparable damage it does to someone.
All in the backdrop of a very realistic scenario…
“No Country for Old Men,” is also a masterpiece. There are, I suppose, some parallels.
The fact that realistic violence was left out of so many older movies, is a variable in why people are violent.
Example. “Saving Private Ryan,” was extremely gory. But. Many people looked at war a VERY different way, after seeing it represented realistically…