Analysing-Personal Narrative

a poor shooter, has three bullets in his rifle to finish off Davey. Munny misses the first shot. He misses the second shot. Just before Davey almost moves behind the rock, Munny fires his last bullet and hit Davey in his gut, which is a fatal wound that eventually tortured him to death.
In this scene, the camera specifically emphasized on the pain of Davey. Audiences observe the painful facial expression of Davey, and hear the painful moan of Davey. We also observe that when Munny shot Davey in the gut, he seems full of guilt on his face. In traditional western movie, when the hero kills the victim, he should feel honor and pleasure, Will seems ambivalent and sad for his murder, and Ned don’t even have the courage to conduct that violence.
Many scholars critique the scene as a complete throwback to the traditional western by granting Will a justified vengeance for his good friend Ned through an unrealistic but traditional bloodbath and gunfight. Though it is hard to deny that the last scene to some extent counters and overrides the previously consistent theme of revisionist western, there are definitely certain elements in the scene that still conflicted and split our allegiance away from Will Munny, and thus in a way critique violence and help support the revisionist western aspect of the film. The last scene conflicted our allegiance towards this supposedly honorable and purgative violence by refusing to set up Will Munny and his final shoot out as an idealized and traditional western hero representing justice and righteousness, and killing all the vicious villains by his skill. In contrast Eastwood’s previous traditional western films, such as For a Few Dollars More where the final climatic duel always take place in broad daylight, Unforgiven carefully portrays Munny’s point of view when approaching the bar in a dark and rainy night. In fact, it is so dark that the audience can hardly see anything besides the fainted light in the bar. Instead of a fair and honored western duel which both sides are well informed and both had the equal chance to draw their weapon, Munny
Such divergence in alignment and allegiance can create a seriously conflicted and painful feeling about the violence in Unforgiven, which encourages the audiences to start to investigate the questionable nature of violence. Though Unforgiven tried to lead the audience towards its non-violent ideology, the treatment of violence in the last scene more or less contradict and override its non-violent ideology and support the ideology of “regeneration through violence” by making violence a final resolution. Thus, Unforgiven is an ambivalent movie on its treatment of violence that the film not only includes a painful feeling of the consequence of violence related to a revisionist western theme but also blend in the satisfactory feeling of violence close to a traditional western film. Perhaps such an ambivalent and interesting combination helped contribute to its commercial success in the