INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CULTURAL RESEARCH

This article is not a critical review of the film, but reflection about American Identity. In this movie a young girl joins an aging U.S. marshal in tracking her father's killer into hostile Indian territory. Certainly this is coming-of-age movie, heroine is growing up, she is acquiring  the true grit. The Culture of Wild West can be defined as Culture of Honor (term of M.Gladwell and D.Fisher), ideas of Courage, Justice and Honor are very important for social imagination of Wild West Culture. Sense of Justice is basic concept for the identity and a person develops it through their perception of themselves in the relationship with other people around. Moreover, in this culture the Sense of Justice  is a significant social image, an ideal. In this article the author shows three levels of Sense of Justice: metaphysical, social and moral.