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No Country For Old Men - has anybody seen it?

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"Joseph Golden":
I read the book, seen the movie just before i finished the book. And finished the book not long ago.

I loved both. The film is majestically and brutally beautiful. The story is heartbreaking and amazing.

The movie has a lot of themes. I'll discuss some of which i know and think....

Freedom - The entire story is based around Texas. Where it is secluded and desalted. Open spaces - full of freedom. Each character is searching for it's own piece of this.
Moss - Finding the money makes him think, wow i live in a trailer and i have nothing. With this i can get the freedom i want. So he takes it. gets his wife to safety. Goes across the state looking to get away from whom is chasing hm. He wants his freedom. To get away form the maniac, to get away from poverty, to get away from the law. From himself...

Carla Jean - She in search of her own freedom, but not in the kind Moss wants. He wants to get away from the life they had. She wanted to get back what they had. She wanted everything to be the way it was. She was happy. There was no greed in her. She represented peace. When he asks her to about the coin. She says no cause unlike people on death row. She has free will. Free will to chose her own destiny. even if it was largely chose for her.

Bell (Sheriff) - he became a law enforcement officer not to hold the world or law in his hands. But to gain the respect from those he considered above him. His family. He sees the world changing into something so much worse than it is. He searches for this moss knowing that all he wants is the freedom to gt out of the world his in. He sees that common ground. The sheriff wants freedom, so he can understand just a little whats happening....

Anyways, i suppose that's just one theme. There are so many others.

But to me the film was great....

Artiste:
Violence dominates!

Criminals overtake laws!

Where is peace, freedom??


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"Joseph Golden":
Violence dominates! - Yes, that is only succeeded in freedom, It is a human trait to resort to violence. We have all at least thought about it? We just aint free enough in our minds or heats to take it. This character is? He represents apart of us we all turn a blind eye to. His our anger, our hate, our violence. And in some it dominates?

Criminals overtake laws! - Yes, again they have the freedom to overtake what is predetermined. The law? How many characters are above the law? How many are below? How many follow? How many dont?

Where is peace, freedom?? - That's the point, Peace and Freedom is an illusion? Is there even a difference between peace and freedom?

serious crayons:
My interpretation was that the movie was about chance. It was about the capriciousness and randomness of death and fate. That's why Chigurh kept asking people to flip a coin. And was it the wife who asked how he got there and he said "same way the coin got here" or something like that? He killed just about anyone who happened, through sheer chance, to cross his path.

And that's how death is, really. Most movies portray death as something that happens to people who aren't smart and gutsy enough to evade it. Whether it's zombies or a shipwreck or aliens or a maniac or war ... the heroes through their wits and courage generally find some way to save themselves.

But in real life, that's not how death works. People die in war and natural disasters often because they were unlucky enough to have been in a particular place at a particular time. Plenty of smart and brave people got swept away by the tsunami or killed in terrorist attacks or shot by snipers and so on and were dead. There was no chance to use their wits and courage.

So that's what I see NCFOM being about. Chigurh is death, killing people by chance. And in the end even he himself is effected by the randomness of fate when he gets hit by a car.

opinionista:

--- Quote from: ineedcrayons on February 18, 2008, 11:58:09 am ---My interpretation was that the movie was about chance. It was about the capriciousness and randomness of death and fate. That's why Chigurh kept asking people to flip a coin. And was it the wife who asked how he got there and he said "same way the coin got here" or something like that? He killed just about anyone who happened, through sheer chance, to cross his path.

And that's how death is, really. Most movies portray death as something that happens to people who aren't smart and gutsy enough to evade it. Whether it's zombies or a shipwreck or aliens or a maniac or war ... the heroes through their wits and courage generally find some way to save themselves.

But in real life, that's not how death works. People die in war and natural disasters often because they were unlucky enough to have been in a particular place at a particular time. Plenty of smart and brave people got swept away by the tsunami or killed in terrorist attacks or shot by snipers and so on and were dead. There was no chance to use their wits and courage.

So that's what I see NCFOM being about. Chigurh is death, killing people by chance. And in the end even he himself is effected by the randomness of fate when he gets hit by a car.

--- End quote ---

To me Chigurgh represents violence not just death. Everything he does is violent. He forgives the boys lives at the end of the movie because he was out in the open, and an ambulance was already called. Otherwise he probably would've killed them.

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