Screening Report; True Grit

Screening Report; True Grit

One of the most important scenes in True Grit happens toward the end of the movie Mattie seizes LaBoeuf's rifle and shoots Chaney in the chest, knocking him over the edge of the cliff, killing him. The recoil knocks her into a pit, where she disturbs a ball of rattlesnakes. Cogburn arrives, but not before Mattie’s is bitten by a rattle snake in the arm. Cogburn rides day and night to get Mattie to a doctor, carrying her on foot after euthanizing Mattie's exhausted horse. The movie ends with Mattie, twenty five years later with her standing over Cogburn's grave and reflecting on her decision to move his remains, how she has never married, and how time catches up with everyone.

Throughout the movie Cogburn is portrayed as a hard, stern and rouged man, but during this scene he did something that maybe even he was surprised that he did it. The scene is one of the most important ones because Cogburn, a tough man who cared little about any one risk his own life to save Mattie’s life. Even after Mattie’s horse is exhausted and he has to euthanize it he begins to carry her. Mattie eventually grew on him and he cared about her even though he may have not showed it until the very end.