no country for old men
I love movies, except for Western movies.
No Country For Old Men is a classic crime, western movie. It was released in 2007 and won the 80th Academy Awards for Best Film and Best Director in 2008. The title of this movie is loud enough, but it's not a likable movie. I spent an afternoon in bed watching this movie, and at the end I had to bow my head and admit defeat. I couldn't appreciate it in the end. I understood Inception, Death Cruise, the Butterfly Effect and even Mulholland Drive, but I was stunned by a western crime movie.
The movie is probably a story about a man who occupied the pen and made a fortune, a perverted killer chased and killed the man, and the police tried to protect the man and arrested the killer. The story itself is not complicated, and the Coen brothers' ability to tell the story is okay. The Coen brothers are very good at shaping characters and creating atmosphere. It can be said that the overall atmosphere of the film is great. The story as a whole doesn't have many climaxes. It's a Western movie, and the narrative tends to be gentle and eloquent, but the atmosphere is still very exciting. In addition to the final "climax", the classic "American orgasm" and "anti-climax", when you thought there was going to be a hearty three-way duel, the director told you, don't fight, your protagonist is dead, And also said proudly, look how artistic I let him die. It's almost like, you saw your friend stew a pot of delicious food that is full of aroma and can't help but drool. You waited for this pot of food for an hour. However, the moment you opened the lid of the pot. In an instant, you realize it's a pot of shit, and you've been forced to swallow a spoonful of shit by your friend. This is probably what I don't like about this movie the most. The previous plots all express the man's strength, shrewdness and alertness, but near the end, he was easily killed by an unknown person. It really can't be explained. Logically inexplicable. At the same time, the narrative of this film is jerky (described by Clockwork Zhang), and the logic always feels different, as if the difference in the way of thinking of liberal arts students brings about a deviation in understanding, forming an insurmountable gap between the director and the audience. The specific performance is that the Coen brothers’ storytelling (small storyline) only tells about the beginning and the ending, and the content in the middle is not told to you, it is all up to the audience to make up their own minds. (Even after Clockwork Zhang watched the movie, he watched the original novel again.)
Looking at the movie, aside from some small details that require guesswork, the most puzzling thing for me is what the movie is trying to say. Some movies, like Quentin's movies or just popcorn movies, don't have a theme, but No Country for Old Men is clearly not. Whether it is the beginning or the end, the old policeman expresses his discomfort with the world of this era, which can be regarded as a deduction. But the men in the title is plural, I always feel that men and perverted killers also have to deduct the title to a certain extent, but I didn't see it in the end. When a man dies, he simply dies, leaving nothing behind. It can be said that death has no value and meaning. The killer finally kills the person he wants to kill, and even if he encounters a serious car accident, he still manages to escape. It can be said that in the second half of the movie, there is no depth or sublimation in the side of the characters. Of course, whether this involves the issue of the original novel is unknown.
Perhaps, strictly speaking, No Country for Old Men is not a Western movie. But its narrative technique and story background are indeed a Western movie. I really can't love Western movies. The content of Western movies is empty, and it always gives people the feeling that something that can be said in 5 minutes, but he has to drag it on for an hour. No Country for Old Men has undoubtedly deepened my prejudice against Western movies. No Country for Old Men is a movie I finished watching. I didn't write a movie review in a hurry. Instead, I checked the movie information and found the show, and I wrote a movie review after watching it. There is no other reason, this movie has put me in a Schrödinger state, and some of my questions still have no definite answers. It's not that No Country for Old Men is bad, but at least No Country for Old Men shows a truth. The Oscars do not represent authority. The Oscars only show that the film has something to offer. As for whether it is a "perfect" film, that is what the benevolent sees the wise and the wise. . Don't be obsessed with "authoritative" evaluations, trust your own intuitive feelings. This is the biggest takeaway for me after watching this movie.
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