×Reminder: This commentary reveals some uncritical plots, which is suitable for communication among those who have watched the film. If you're afraid of disappointment, you still don't think it's important.
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If you regard "No Country for Old Men" as a simple crime drama, we can draw the following useful lessons:
1. Be a thief without a guilty conscience. Going back to the crime scene will lead to endless misfortunes;
2. It is best to check thoroughly after obtaining large sums of money. Toxic goods will be fatal if swallowed;
3. Don't think you are very smart. Even if you were smart before, you may not always be smarter than your opponent;
4. Don't sit facing the door while waiting for the enemy. Although this looks mighty, it is also very easy to hang up;
5. Meeting strangers is risky, and you need to be cautious when speaking. Especially when he takes out a coin to give you a guess, don't say "Head". The renminbi has no heads.
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story took place in 1980——"This coin was born in 1958, and it has been 22 years since I came here."
Some people said that it was very depressing to watch this film. Said that the values inside are distorted: in a great country like the United States, which is both democratic and ruled by law, bad people are rampant, and those who are not bad enough are eventually killed by the worst, and by the way, many unrelated people are killed. The only old policeman who was considered a good person, seemed to be weak. He just shook his head at the social news in the newspaper, let go of his first evil, and retired sadly. In the end, the killer was in a car accident. The indignant audience thought the director could not stand it, so he took the "Scourge" instead. Unexpectedly, classmate Xiaoqiang climbed out of the car again, rescued himself and escaped. Is there any reason? ?
Of course, the sigh of "There is no reason!" is actually half a step away from understanding the film. Are the Coen brothers just trying to present such a "unreasonable" worldview? In the film, the old police officer sighed, "When I am old, I thought God would guide me, but he didn't."
I personally feel that if the perverted killer in the film is not regarded as a specific character, but as a symbol, perhaps the interpretation of this film will become easier. What's the symbol? gloomy. Reticent. Flimsy hands and feet. Always be able to kill a fancy opponent. Has its own unique principles. ——Well, yes, "death". The shadow of death will always follow you behind, even without the guidance of a wireless transmitter, it can find you accurately. It's no use fleeing. It's useless to talk about terms. It's no use begging. Billions of human beings have billions of different lives, but they will all come to him in the end-oh, not God, not Marx, but death.
Most people only realize when they face death that the things they have held close to before are useless, including money, including "the values you have always adhered to" cannot save you from death's sickle. For hundreds of thousands of years-or it should be said, since the birth of the human species, there has never been a lack of people who attempt to sniper the god of death. Such attempts have achieved brilliant results in the past 100 years-antibiotics, surgery, serum, heart bypass... Our weapons are becoming more sophisticated and bullets are becoming more abundant, which greatly prolongs the average life span of human beings and solves many problems. Illnesses that were considered terminally ill in the past-many times, we thought that the god of death was repelled by us because he hid in the shadows-but at the end of the day, he would still emerge from the weird place, using the weirdest The means give the final blow, the fatal blow.
To say that the killer was the incarnation of death, there is still a small piece of evidence—when the old policeman talked about the dead to the little policeman, he said that they were "normal deaths"—naturally, according to the killer's usual logic.
The film has many touches on disease, aging and death (excluding "abnormal" deaths), such as the protagonist’s mother-in-law who has cancer, such as the old police visiting his elderly uncle, and the old man mentioning the attack on "Uncle Mike" in 1909. Death... Many scenes mentioned "dead" and "old". When Chinese people refer to a person who has passed away, they often talk about his "before his death". In fact, it is not "before his death" but "before his death." As soon as everyone is born, they move towards death. The law of life cannot be changed, just like the strange and hard principle of a killer-asking "why" and "why" is useless. The only answer to you is the muzzle of a black hole or The nozzle of the gas cylinder (the first time I knew that this thing could kill people), but people kept asking, fearing, and fleeing. What if the god of death came to you? To quote the words of the old white beard in the film, "I'm here...what? I can't do anything."
To make this article a little bourgeoisie, please allow me to quote Murakami's words: "Death is not the opposite of life, but It is to live forever as a part of life." When you accept life, you have to accept death. This is forcible tying. This is the two sides of a coin. The word age is Age in English, and as a verb, Aging means aging, getting older. The film seems to be talking about "old man", but who is not "old man"? They are all running towards the known end, and there are still diseases, car accidents and various objects falling from height on the road. No one knows which day is their twilight.
The film stopped abruptly in the old police chief's narration of the dream, and the ticking of the clock became louder and louder, gradually overlapping with the killer's rapid footsteps.
Go back and talk about the world view of the film. If you apply Murakami, can you also say that evil is not the opposite of good, but only a part of the whole world? If you are more pessimistic, you can even assert that evil is eternal, as long as good exists for one day, evil will exist for one day; the values of some people can be evil to other people (in this film, this "part of people" is simplified to "One person")...Wait. There are still a lot of threads, yet to be discovered.
——The above comments probably can't point you to the director, screenwriter and actor "trying to tell you what", just talk about "what I saw". Personal opinions are welcome to discuss.
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