Unforgiven

So far, Unforgiven has proven to be the most exciting film we've watched in the class!  The cowboys, guns, and prostitutes remind me of the Old West I know from my childhood(okay, maybe not the prostitutes).  However, the prostitutes are very important to this film, and in the opening scene we are introduced to the underlying misogyny with them.  There's something very parallel about the men's opinion of animals and woman in the film.  For example, once Little Bill realizes that Skinny only thinks of the women as property he no longer wants to whip the men, but he just wants a payment of horses.  "Property, for property" is what he calls it I think.  After that scene when all the women are in the bedroom, Alice says that "they're whores not horses".  She made that same distinction to Little Bill right before that when he explains that the men who cut up Delilah weren't "bad men," and she said something like "no, they're not wicked like us whores?"  All of these aspects of the film point out that women, especially the whores, are constantly objectified by men.  
Once we are introduced to Bill Munny he repeatedly talks about how his wife had reformed him from the evil ways of his "old life."  When Bill tries to mount the white horse for the first time and keeps falling he says that he used to mistreat animals often and that's why this horse and hogs treat him badly(he kept falling in the mud, chasing after the hogs).  The animals and women are both disrespected by these "wicked" men of the West like Bill, until he was changed by his wife(obviously a woman herself).  
Schofield Kid  is like a younger version of Bill, or at least a wanna-be.  We know that Kid is a liar immediately, since he exaggerates how Delilah was cut up and refers to her as "a lady."  It's also implied that he gave himself the nickname "Schofield Kid" and that he hasn't killed many people at all.  However, he's able to get Bill back into his old ways for the sake of earning money.