Unforgiven (1992) Clint Eastwood is eminently qualified to criticize the individualist-macho-male-senseless-gun-shooting-violence ideology of the Western genre. Amerikans have long romanticized The Cowboy and The West, part of their imperialist heritage that they made about a million movies of just to make sure they completely distorted the history of their conquest over the land's First Nations. This movie debunks some of that romance; but ultimately replaces it with retro-self-reflective romance.