Unforgiven Is a Revisionist Story

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Chigor's arc isn't one of redemption in the end he doesn't end up saving the day by getting there just in time and proving that he was still up for the task. Luellen Moss same like this like this is revisionist in a way that like unforgiven is not right even if he does at least kill the Jean Hackman at the end of unforgiven. In this there's just no closure that's one of the things I think that really makes it distinctive yeah absolutely.

David and Tamler dive into the Coen brothers’ bleak and beautiful adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s 2005 novel "No Country for Old Men." What’s the underlying philosophy that animates Anton Chigurh? Does he have a code of any kind, or is he just a ghostly symbol of human brutality and a pitiless indifferent universe? Does he represent a new kind of evil or is Sheriff Bell just getting old? What elements, if any, in the film are more dream than reality?

And speaking of moral decline, a new Nature study claims that we have the illusory belief that people are getting worse - but can they really establish that it’s an illusion?

Mastroianni, A. M., & Gilbert, D. T. (2023). The illusion of moral decline. Nature, 1-8.

Mastroianni blog post about the illusion of moral decline

No Country for Old Men (movie) [wikipedia.org]