"No Country for Old Men
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Regarding crime and murder, Hitchcock has a famous saying: "Killing a person is very difficult, very painful, and requires very, very much Time.” When today’s action and crime movies are becoming more cartoonish and flattering (such as "Bodyguards in the Line" or "Hitman 47"), few people can understand the samādhi in this sentence. The Coen Brothers' "Old Nowhere" is so special.
The film was in a state of chaos and out of control from the beginning: the hunter moss accidentally found a huge sum of US$2.4 million, which he intended to swallow privately, but was discovered in a ghostly manner because he wanted to give a dying person a sip of water to drink. Trace-from here on, the whole story unfolds under the premise of absurdity and no logic. To say that it has no logic is not that the director lacks a grasp of the storyline. On the contrary, the storyline of the film is very clear; however, what puzzles many viewers is that they cannot understand this based on the film logic and rules that they have established for many years. The story, the behavior of all the characters and their results are full of contradictions, contradictions, and irrationality: the killer chigurh uses a coin toss to determine the life and death of the grocery store owner, but you have no idea why the killer wants to kill (or not kill) him. ; The hunter moss beautifully avoided many pursuits, but eventually died because he used his wife as a cover; the old policeman bell chased after the killer and the moss, but in fact it did not play a role; at the end, everything was done. The human chigurh was hit by a car that came out of nowhere and broke his arm-all cause and effect (which was originally a very important driving force in crime movies) was disrupted, just like the Coen brothers in "Blood Labyrinth". "Nothing is guaranteed, no matter whether you are the Pope of Rome, the President of the United States or the Person of the Year, something will always go wrong." This is the postmodern game of the Cohen brothers. Maybe we look at Kevin Smith’s "Furious Against the Sky" or Quentin Tarantino’s "Kill Bill". The post-modern style is more obvious: collage of forms, hybrid styles, parody and Tribute... The post-modern colors of the Coen brothers are more intrinsic and pure. In "Old Nowhere", Western films, action films, road films, crime films, film noir and other elements are combined, but all elements are tribute at the same time It is also subverted-the taboo of not killing women in Western movies is gone here; the violent explosion scenes in action movies are here just to attract attention, so that the killer can steal things to heal; the plot in crime movies always follows It is the development of money, but in "Old Nowhere", we don't know where the money ended up (Ethan Cohen said, "I don't care where the money went afterwards").
So far, we understand one thing. What the Coen brothers want to do is to use this video to tell us: Can it be more ridiculous, messy, funny, violent, and cold? Looking for meaning and answers from the movies of the two brothers is like the guy in "Ice Blood Storm" who wants to push the corpse of his comrade into the log mill with the "correct" posture and angle. He is destined to become an idiot with a ridiculous ending. But who is not an idiot or an idiot in the Coen Brothers movie? Isn't everyone ridiculously trying to do what they think is right? Then continue to ridiculously look for the "meaning" of "Old Nowhere": the film is actually not directly related to the image of the old man. The title of the film (or the title of the book) comes from Yeats's famous poem "Sailing To Byzantium" ( Sailing to Byzantium) the first sentence. The theme of this poem can be read as "destiny" and "the pursuit of eternity". The body and history will decay and decay, but the spirit always hopes for a place of existence that transcends time. The Coen brothers put the story of "Old Nowhere" in the 1980s, deliberately infiltrating the film in an old style, and nostalgic for the order and reason of the old era. But don’t forget, after the old policeman who seems to represent the conscience of society, after some emotion, the killer like a death god will also be broken off his arm—violence is so fierce and nihilistic that no one can avoid it; everything is disorderly , Even if it is a killer and a god of death, it is generally "the old have nowhere to depend"-everything that has passed, is about to die, and will be in the future, is just in the song.
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