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Danderson (post: 1216114) wrote:Though I haven't wacthed it, here's an amazingly funny spoof on the bowling scene from the movie....(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_HddDpgAbo)
I'M THE POKEMON MASTER!!!
Part of me wants to see this and part of me's not sure it'll be worth watching, considering the coroption of the two main characters......But who knows....I'll probably get around to it one of these days....
Radical Dreamer (post: 1216120) wrote:(That's from There Will Be Blood. This thread is about No Country for Old Men.
Just saying.)
XD
Mr. SmartyPants (post: 1217826) wrote:I thought the ending was a rather powerful one. Not too much closure, but just enough for us to understand what's to come.
[spoiler]Anton Chigurh is a physical representation of the unstoppable evil. Not only that, but he kills anything that he deems to have a petty or trivial existence with his "oxygen tank". The gas station owner and the the man whom he carjacks are both representative of this. The gas station owner lived a simple and passive life, which Chigurh sees as a mundane life. Recall that the "oxygen tank" that he carried was used for cows, which are generally passive creatures. In essence, Chigurh saw these people just as passive as cows.
Continuing on with a quote of someone on the IMDB forums: "When the owner is about to reflexively drop the quarter in with the rest, Chigurh’s strong reaction is key: the man has just escaped death by making the most vital choice of his life, and yet there he is, about to drop what that coin represents in with the rest - which have as their only significance the fact that they’re insignificant. Chigurh’s managed, through sheer intimidation, to get the guy to wake up]
The only two main characters that actually "wake up" are Sheriff Bell and Carla Jean Moss. Both of them realize their own mortality, and that they have the ability to be destroyed by the "unstoppable evil". Unfortunately, Carla Jean does die by Chigurh's hands simply because of his deal he made with Ewelyen. Bell "wakes up", realizes that A. He was always one step behind Chigurh (Evident by the milk and television shot), B. That there would be no way he could stop this evil, and C. That he ought to give up before his own life was lost. Note that Bell does not even fully understand these type of killers, evident by the opening monologue in the film.
When you're just a sliver away from death, but manage to escape it, I imagine that you'd feel more alive than ever. Not only that, but you'd tend to make better and smarter choices in life that reflect your satisfaction with living. Sheriff Bell realizes when he's in the room where Ewelyen was killed. Since he does not see Chigurh, (i.e. see death in a personified form) he is allowed to continue on and live. To quote another user from IMDB: [i]"This is the last scene we'll see Bell before he decides to retire, the implication being that he in investigating he has crossed his own moral line and is no longer suitable for police work in an increasingly dangerous and evil world." Now you can sort of understand why the title is called "No Country for Old Men.
The car crash which Chigurh was in symbolizes the randomness and unpredictability, which is directly opposite of how Chigurh views himself. He views himself as in 100% control of whether or not other people get to live or not. Whether or not he understands that he does not when he is hit by a car is uncertain. Regardless, Chigurh is hit by a car, which may at least an attack on how he views himself.
As for his dream at the end of the movie, it simply represents his knowledge that he will soon die one day (The whole "following his father towards the light" idea) just like his father. He escaped death by retiring and never once seeing Anton Chigurh, so the time between then and his death is prolonged.[/spoiler]
And on a very interesting note:
[spoiler]Did you notice that Bell, Ewyeln Moss, and Chigurh never share any screentime together? That and the only character that ever talks to all three of them face-to-face is Carla Jean?[/spoiler]
Kesk (post: 1222437) wrote:After reading the book beforehand, no, I'm sorry, regurgitating a half and half version of a book is not how you make great film. Sure, it's got charm, the film is well done visually and the acting is spot on but the thoughts of the book are lost in translation. You either make a film exactly like the book or you build onto an idea established within a work, don't make something pretty and fun to watch with an inbetweener message that film buffs can claim to get and those of us who read the book can at.
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