TRUE GRIT

I watch the movie instead of reading the book.
The background is the American West and the age of gunmen.  Mattie, who was only 14 years old, she takes the adventure to revenge Tom Chaney, who murdered her father. To catch Tom Chaney, Mattie hired the notorious sheriff Cogburn.  Cogburn saw the gigantic figure in Mattie and her plenty of courage.  The adventure gets even deeper as Mattie and Cogburn tie-up with La Boeuf, a Texas Ranger who has been chasing Tom for a few months.  Eventually, they took Tom Chaney and Mattie gets his father's revenge.  In the process of taking revenge on Tom Chaney, Mattie loses one arm.  After the last 25 years, Matty, who has no arms, becomes a middle-aged figure went to look for Cogburn, who retires the sheriff and perform at the circus, but she figured out later that Cogburn died.

In this last scene, the movie seemed to speak to me.  Is Mattie’s courage was a true grit which had to make a ruthless choice of revenge? “The wicked man flees though no one pursues” is one of the Bible verse, which appears on the first scene in the movie.

The plot of this book is ordinary.  However, each character in this movie is really moving and living.  Mattie's dazzling eyes and force, the heaviness of the Federal Sheriff, Cogburn, and La Boeuf who seems to be missing somewhere, but with the pride of being a Texas Ranger, they all moving in harmony in this movie.

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