Eastwood's Conscience

[GRAEME]

Am I being too superficial? Or did Eastwood really mean this as some part of his *message*?

You missed the point completely!

There is a process of exaggeration with the girl's wounds - it escalates wildly with each retelling as folk legends and rumours have a habit of doing.

This is quite obviously a blackly humourous joke running throughthe first part of the film. It also figures into a minor theme of the film about the fictional myth making of the west - The Duck of Death and so on.

I think you need to watch it again!

[Moor Larkin]

This is quite obviously a blackly humourous joke running throughthe first part of the film. It also figures into a minor theme of the film about the fictional myth making of the west - The Duck of Death and so on.

I think you need to watch it again!

or as one review I've found puts it:

"Thus, the film rejects the attempt to establish its own codes and calls into question previous generic conventions, possibly reflecting the generic awareness and self-reflexivity of the revisionist stage of generic development or Henri Focillon's "mannerist" stage. However, the film's ultimate posture is the rejection of genre itself."

All a bit pointy-headed for a guy who bemoans the *pussy generation* I would have thought.....

[will.15]

or as one review I've found puts it:

"Thus, the film rejects the attempt to establish its own codes and calls into question previous generic conventions, possibly reflecting the generic awareness and self-reflexivity of the revisionist stage of generic development or Henri Focillon's "mannerist" stage. However, the film's ultimate posture is the rejection of genre itself."

Dirty Harry would have shot that reviewer.