Unforgiven

This is probably the most unique pre 2000 western and really takes a step back from the norms of the greener of the time with an old man, a black man and a kid  The film really lets you sit with the character and sacrifices all that hype aura moments most westerns have and so make the final fight a crazy payoff    The emotional weight Eastwood really gives these characters aswell make the characters so real and not like the other westerns and really subverts the genre  That dimly lit final duel aswell really gives Eastwood character the payoff he deserves and after all that character building it shows why his character is who he is