Unforgiven

There was only one thing that I noticed in this film that wasn't said in class.  There were many similarities between it and All Quiet on the Western Front.  The first scene I realized that in was when Will shot Davie(I think that was his name), and he layed there dying and crying out for water.  They all watched as he slowly died and Will demanded his friends bring him water.  Also, when Schofield Kid kills the guy in the outhouse, his guilty response and hesitation in murder reflected that of the young soldiers in World War I.  These similarities show that both films contain the theme that murder is a horrible event.  Whether it's in a war, or done by a cowboy-hitman, no man can bare to take the life of another.  Here you have some of the "meanest, rootin, tootin, sons of bitches," yet they can't even kill a man without reveal their human emotion.  Only in the final scene do you see Will kill without feeling, but that is "justified" by his revenge for Ned.