Unforgiven

From an early introduction i believe the theme of the film is values. Always discussing the value of something. The value of a woman in comparison with a man or a horse. The value of hiring an assassin (1,000) to kill a man. The value of being able to build your own house which i believe we will learn ore about later on.

The value of the prostitute in Western society seems to have been like property. The woman gets no retribution for getting her face cut up which in addition has made her unwanted in her job as a prostitute. All that happens is that the owner gets a few horses.In this society men are the superior race and everything else is just something that makes you a money. This is why horses and woman are on the same value scale.

One scene that struck me was when the friend of the man who slashed the prostitutes face offered a horse to the woman herself, even though he wasn't directly responsible for cutting her face. It was important how he offered the woman and not the owner the horse because it showed he may be the only one that saw the prostitutes as human beings and not objects. This begs the question of whether this man that buys prostitutes and hangs out with people that cut up woman is a bad person or circumstance has put him in this position, when he actually is a good-natured man. We will find out later in the film so lets keep watching.