Deserve’s got nothing to do with it!

Unforgiven (1992)
Produced & Directed by: Clint Eastwood

This depressing Western is not your typical swashbuckling gunslinging escapade that one would expect. It instead, looks at nihilistic look at life through the eyes of a reformed bandit in late 1800s of the Wild West.

Bill Munny (Clint Eastwood), a reformed professional gunfighter, is now a struggling hog farmer. His pigs are sick, he is poor and has two kids (children) to feed. He gave up his wayward ways after his wife changed him into becoming a new man, giving up his whiskey and the senseless killings. Sadly, his wife succumbed to smallpox. Mundy lives a broken man, pledging not to go to his old ways ever again.

But when a young punk (Schofield Kid) turns up at his home with the news of two crooks with a bounty on their head for mutilating a lady’s face, at a time when he was in dire straits, the temptation was too much. For his children’s future, he joined forces with his ex-partner, Ned Logan (Morgan Freeman) to hunt the crooks. The trio is a hodgepodge of Kid who is short-sighted, Bill, who had forgotten all his old ways, even saddling a horse and Ned, who had the ‘nerves’ when the moment of reckoning arrived.

The lady who was mutilated was no angel but a worker in the brothel of a small town run by a mean Sheriff Little Bill (Gene Hackman). He runs the town with an iron fist, anyway he deems fit.

The most compelling dialogue that struck me was when Munny was about to put the coup-de-grace on Little Bill.

Bill: I do not deserve to die like that this. I am building a house.

Munny: Deserve’s got nothing to with it! Boom!

That is life for you. Nature is a ruthless son of a bitch. It does not bother about your plans, your aspirations or feel pity for dependants. If you are there in the path of its plan, poof you go. If you got to go, then you have to go. No special preference is given to royalties, professionals, leaders or those in the privileged part of society. You are not special. You cannot bribe the powers that be by appeasing them with showers of salutations and persuasions. You are just a minuscule of a fragment in this vast universe.

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