The High Plains Drifter by Clint Eastwood is my favorite western. The film is very interesting. There are a lot of twists and turns that viewers don't see coming. I thought it was a great movie. This kept me seated and very interested. Clint Eastwood is an extraordinary director and actor. The way the scenes were shot and the sound effects of the time were excellent. Throughout the film, I noticed there were a lot of messages. This is a film that kept me thinking throughout. During movies, I like to think about what's going to happen next and how it's going to end. It was like any other western I've ever seen in my life. I actually enjoyed a western for once. At first I didn't understand why he was having flashbacks of the whip. When he goes to town and hears the whips cracking, it brings back bad memories of what the three men did to him. Then he tries to sleep and dreams of being beaten with a whip and wakes up in a cold sweat. He sees the marshal telling the townspeople as they stood back and watched. That he would see them in hell. I think that if the author can use the 1st person, it was to symbolize the superiority of Clint Eastwood's unnamed character who was actually Marshall Jim Duncan. He had come back to punish the city for what it had done or what it should have done. He tells the town that they don't need him and that they can fight the brothers on their own. He gives them the weapons and the strategy to achieve this, but they insist that they need him. Eastwood gives these three times to get rid of him and leave him alone, but the town continues to harass him. The city then made a serious mistake. They make a deal to give him EVERYTHING he wants. Who else would you want to make a deal like that with, none other than...... middle of paper... you see. Personally, I didn't see it until we were discussing the film. The pale horse was to symbolize the 4th horseman, Death. In The Book of Revelation, chapter 6, verse 8: “And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and the name of him that sat upon him was Death, and Hell followed him. » When he arrived in town, everyone stopped what they were doing and had this air of cowardice. They all see him as being about to kill everyone in the town. After discussing this film in class, everything makes sense. All the details that I missed throughout the film, I saw them when we started discussing it. I saw most of the religious themes, some like the pale horse escaped me. It was an awesome movie that I would recommend to everyone. The way it's written and the way it was performed is incredible. I haven't even begun to scratch the surface of the meanings of this film..