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Winner of 4 Academy Awards, Clint Eastwood's 1992 masterpiece stands as the most
thematically compelling westerns ever made. He stars as a retired, once-ruthless
killer who accepts one last bounty-hunter mission: to find the men who brutalized
a prostitute to help support his motherless children. He takes on a corrupt sheriff
(Oscar winner Gene Hackman) in a showdown that makes the viewer feel the full impact
of violence and its corruption of the soul. The film gives a lot of shades of gray that
really blow off the westerns of old. There is no good guy in the white hat. In fact,
there is little good to be found in the movie. Most men and women are scoundrels or
people of ill-repute. However, the general theme of reality is what Eastwood wants to
convey. Things aren't what they seem and this anti-western shrugs off the myths of
the Old West. It's inarguably Eastwood's crowning directorial achievement.
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