If you don’t know the director Coen Brothers, and don’t understand what this strange title and what the movie intends to express, just as a noir style crime suspense thriller, "Old Nowhere" is already very exciting.
First of all, you must not forget the cold-faced murderer played by Javier Baden, who also won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for this role. Even after many years, if you want to comment on a character like the Top 10 Murders in Film History, this Anton in "Old Nowhere" must be on the list.
Whether it is his ugly hairstyle or grim expression, or his two very unique and cool killer weapons-oxygen cylinder and muffler shotgun, it reveals that he has no feelings and empathy as a human being. Even the consciousness of fighting for survival as an animal. Of course the person who interfered with him and the person who witnessed his crime must die; need to change the car, and the owner will get in the way to die; it does not matter if the person in front of him is dead or not, then flip a coin to let the other party guess, and the person who guesses wrong will die; even the one on the side of the road Crow, um, shoot. He doesn't even want to kill for fun like other murderers, he just ignores all the rules and emotions in the world, facing the life and death of others, like stepping on a fallen leaf, and occasionally delegate the power of decision to coins. At the same time, he has a very calm mind and strong combat effectiveness. He is as careful as going to the next room to check the thickness of the wall before a gun battle. A murderer who has reached this level can be described as otherworldly.
There are such great people who need to meet their opponents. In this film, the hunter Lu Weilin (Josh Brolin) and the old policeman Ed (Tommy Lee Jones) provoked the main beams, and they are not the idle generation, and Anton played a lot of wonderful scenes. However, compared with the lively gun battles, explosions, and swear words of many crime movies, the style of "Old Nowhere" is very calm, just like the style of the murderer Anton. The rhythm is relaxed, and many places are deliberately left blank, which not only forces the frame to rise sharply, but also allows the audience to use their imagination to scare themselves. In the western United States, there is a quiet and wild atmosphere everywhere. Life in this environment is like weeds, without warmth. Most of the time, what you see is the slow-paced desolate wilderness, or the silent town at midnight, or the chatter of some people. Suddenly the killing begins, it ends with a bang for a few seconds, and everything returns to the slow-paced desolation. There is a feeling that God and people are quite at ease with all kinds of cruelty, and even turn a deaf ear to it. No need for cheap explosions and swear words. When Luweilin sees another car parked beside his car in the dark, or hides and seeks in the ventilation duct of a motel, or appears in the crack of the door A pair of silent shadows, even in the boring conversation between Anton and the grocery store owner, mixed with confusion and fear, the audience raised their hearts to their throats in the silence or chattering waiting.
such a black style, some Coen brothers' humor is indispensable. The lines in this film are neither as regular as regular drama nor as casual as daily spoken language. There is a way of speaking that only the characters of the Coen brothers have. For example, the well-informed old police downplayed the crime scene, some murderers said "Do you see me" to the frightened accountant, and some Lu Weilin's wife was babbling ("Lewelyn", a polysyllable). The name has a rustic and funny feeling), and the well-dressed pretending to force Colonel Carson (Woody Harrison), too much nonsense will naturally end badly. Even if Anton opened the door with an oxygen cylinder, there was an absurd sense of humor.
However, if you look at this movie as a crime thriller with black humor, you should be dissatisfied that it has no ending, or in other words, no ending. You may still wonder why the old policeman talks about so many past events, and why this film is called "Old Nowhere to Support". This will put the movie in a broader dimension. Observing the works of the director Cohen Brothers, starting with the feature-length debut "Blood Labyrinth", to "Ice and Blood Storm", to "Old Nowhere", and later "Burn after Reading" are all group plays, everyone All thinking about their own calculations, thinking that they can control the situation, and the final situation is out of control.
Take the main characters of the film as an example, Lu Weilin is an experienced hunter, from his careful hiding of money, the hotel opened a room to cunning rabbits and three caves, facing the hunting dog, he calmly dried the gun and shot again, and the murderer. You can know that Anton can play so many rounds. As a result, he was overconfident, thinking that the two million he picked up was his own, and he could change his life from then on. In the end he should wish he had never seen these two million. Lu Weilin's wife buried her mother, thinking that she was finally over, she knew the nightmare was still to come. The veteran police officer Ed, is a sergeant who knows everything and has seen the world. From his dialogue with the young policeman, he can tell his veteranship. Until he met An Dong, an unprecedented demon king, he was still unable to succeed and was powerless. Even Anton, the murderer who reformed the rules of the world, was shot by Lu Weilin and was embarrassed. In the end, he drove the car (everything was green), but was hit by a car running a red light on the side. Ask the boy biking for help. Not to mention the confident Colonel Carson wearing an exaggerated hat. As Anton said: "If your rules bring you into this field, what use are your rules?"
Therefore, it was inevitable that the old police did not catch the Murder in the end, and the last car accident of the Murder was not unnecessary. Because the developments in this movie must fail to satisfy anyone’s plan, this world is so complicated and ruthless, people in this world are so small and powerless, the development of events is logical, but this logic Never in the hands of people. A simple sentence is that people are not as good as heaven. This implied theme is constantly mentioned in many seemingly useless nonsense dialogues in the film. For example, in the fable the old policeman told Lu Weilin's wife, someone wanted to kill a cow with a gun, but the cow struggling and the bullet came back and wounded himself. In fact, the topic started from the opening narration. The old policeman Ed complained that the world was going down and the world of his father's generation was so beautiful. The police didn't need to bring a gun, echoing the dream of being with his father he told at the end of the film. But now people are rude to dye their hair and pierce, commit crimes for unreasonable motives, and the sudden sentence "Then I wake up" at the end of the film symbolizes that he finally understands that he has no idea about this world. He is an old man who has nothing to rely on. The so-called "the old have nowhere to depend".
Let's look back at the poster of this film. On the surface, it appears that Lu Weilin absconded with a huge amount of money, but in any case he can't escape the shadow of the murderer Anton, completely helpless. In fact, by extension, this film is not only about old people who have nothing to rely on, whether they are hunters or murderers, or countless poor passers-by who return to the West without a line, their own strength cannot be relied on, their own rules cannot be relied on, and their own luck cannot be relied on. In the face of this world, each of us has nothing to rely on. As the saying goes, "everyone has nothing to depend on."
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