[Locke_]

If character development is what you're looking for, then look to Unforgiven. Unforgiven has a great story and then another great story in that story. This is not a happy movie. There really is no good guy (the way I look at it). The way Eastwood and Freeman's (sp?) characters develop from who look to be friendly and gentle into killers is really good. And right away the audience knows Hackman is up to no good. English Bob was a neatcharacter who may be deemed as unnecessary to some, but the movie wouldn't be as good without him. He brings out the evil that IS Gene Hackman. I thought that the death of Freeman in such a subtle way was a little annoying, but then again, there is no "good guy" of the movie, so why celebrate the death of a villain? Now the biographer is the closest thing to the "good guy" of the movie as can be, although he never really does anything good. He does nothing realy bad either. But the audience can just tell his interest in evil throughout the movie. First the killer English Bob, then the mean nasty sheriff, then Eastwood. He takes risks to get the scoop on evil.

That's what I think the movie is really about: people.