"No Country for Old Men" opens with one of cinema's most powerful monologue's since Edward Norton's in Spike Lee's "25th Hour," and never lets up. Though, in Chigurh's case, sometimes that good is merely determined by the fateful flip of the toss of a coin. Not even Chiguhr, who seemingly kills anyone unfortunate enough to cross his path, is completely devoid of goodness. It's for sure NOT market-friendly filmmaking for American audiences that are all too familiar with plotlines that wrap up nice and neat, characters who get their happy endings or, at the very least, the good guys win and the bad guys lose.įirst off, in "No Country for Old Men," there are no purely good nor purely evil characters. In fact, with unflinching detail and grace, the Coen Brothers simply allow their characters to come to life and their stories to unfold. The Coen Brothers, writers and directors for this film, don't judge their characters. The beauty of a Coen Brothers film, virtually any Coen Brothers film, is that which makes "No Country for Old Men" so brilliant and yet so resolutely unsatisfying as the film winds its way down. Then, there is Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), a man who has been so weathered by his lifetime in law enforcement that even he is, on a certain level, evil by omission.
Llewellyn Moss (Josh Brolin) is, perhaps, less obviously evil and, yet, is so overcome by greed, the desire for massive life improvement and the thrill of the chase that he too succumbs to evil. I'm not sure if love exists in "No Country for Old Men," but I'm damn sure that evil exists in both places obvious and not quite so obvious.in people obvious and, yes, not quite so obvious.Īnton Chiguhr (Javier Bardem) is obviously evil even as he is, equally as obviously, the most principled man featured in the film. Yet, evil, much like love, permeates those hidden crevisces in our souls and, more often than not, shows up for no rhyme nor reason.Īnd so we come to "No Country for Old Men," the latest Coen Brothers mind-fucking masterpiece based upon a Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name. We can seek to justify it or understand it or prevent it. This may, or may not, explain why sometimes a great fuck and a BMW will add up to love. Love has its origins in the deeper, more primitive recesses of our beings. Most of us attribute our love to the cumulative power of a bunch of tangibles adding up, somehow, to something wholly intangible. GradeSaver, 12 March 2023 Web.There's no rhyme nor reason to it. Previous Section Test Yourself! - Quiz #4 Buy Study Guide How To Cite in MLA Format GradeSaver "No Country for Old Men Bibliography". "'No Country for Old Men': Texas Noir." The New York Times. "The First Reviews of Every Cormac McCarthy Novel." Book Marks Review. "Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction." The New York Times. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2005.
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