original meaning

Clementine 2022-04-20 09:01:04

This is an introduction to the original work. Without this background, the movie basically cannot understand the deep meaning, and I don't know what the movie name means.

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In the United States in 1980, the Reagan administration had just come to power, and a large amount of wealth that was enough to buy the entire country had been accumulated. The hippie movement, which flourished in the 1960s and 1970s, has faded, leaving almost no trace other than a general fascination with drugs. A modern crime wave fueled by drug profits has ruthlessly washed away the nation's last moral vestiges, the vast U.S.-Mexico border, a motel hunter, a hitman hired by a drug dealer, and just $2.4 million. Belonging is a life-and-death struggle. The aging sheriff, exhausted from investigating drug crimes and murders, keeps reminiscing about the past and trying to understand a new world where the methods and motives of crimes are increasingly confusing. The country they once had is long in tatters. "Everything is a sign and a miracle, but they don't tell you how the world is going to be like this. They don't tell you what the world is going to be like"; everything is predestined from the moment capital starts to accumulate, everyone Running towards his own destiny; nothing can be turned around. Unlike traditional crime fiction, McCarthy is concerned not with how justice as defined by humans works, but with how a ruthless time will rule us. He pointed the gun at the deepest and darkest core of the American Dream: the spoils of looting will always be ours; history allows us to come clean. And the so-called fate is the judgment and justice that time imposes on everyone in the name of history - "Every step you take is eternal. You can't make it disappear at all. Not one step." "That's not A kingdom of old men. Young men in each other's arms; birds in the trees—the dying generations—singing their own songs." Cormac McCarthy used Yeats' verse as the title, in the In the Wasteland of No Country for Old Men, everyone is forced to face the same question: how does one decide in what order to gradually turn their backs on one's life?

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  • Immanuel 2022-03-23 09:01:07

    I can only say that I am not convinced. Javier Baden’s acting is at its peak, and personally feels like the perverted murderer in the Silent Lamb. It really scared me to pee. Who knows when he will shoot. The whole film has fewer words and more dramas, almost all of which are narrated with images. Unprecedented, super strong sense of powerlessness overflows everywhere, good people and bad people can't escape the hand of fate, and philosophical discussions have a strong meaning. The translation is not good for old people who have nothing to rely on.

  • Lysanne 2021-10-20 18:58:13

    The director spent most of his time talking about the dealings between the hunter and the murderer. The hunter is just like a cowboy with courage and personality in a traditional western movie, while the murderer is cold, shrewd and ubiquitous. If after several confrontations, Dao Gaoyi The ruler is sharpened by one foot, and he wins the cowboy danger at the last minute, and returns to his wife half-dead and bloodied. This will be a classic Western movie. Relying only on the director's control of the camera and narrative: the close-up of the face of the murderer strangling the police in the detention room, the close-up of the traces of the struggle on the floor after the death of the police; the western desert is quietly panicking under the dazzling daylight, in the endless dark night Suddenly the dangerous light flashed slightly; whether it was in the sun or in the dark night, the gunshots always burst out suddenly and then fell into silence. Who doesn’t know if the next gunshot is directed at oneself, life in this desert, fragile and fragile

No Country for Old Men quotes

  • Anton Chigurh: What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss?

    Gas Station Proprietor: Sir?

    Anton Chigurh: The most. You ever lost. On a coin toss.

    Gas Station Proprietor: I don't know. I couldn't say.

    [Chigurh flips a quarter from the change on the counter and covers it with his hand]

    Anton Chigurh: Call it.

    Gas Station Proprietor: Call it?

    Anton Chigurh: Yes.

    Gas Station Proprietor: For what?

    Anton Chigurh: Just call it.

    Gas Station Proprietor: Well, we need to know what we're calling it for here.

    Anton Chigurh: You need to call it. I can't call it for you. It wouldn't be fair.

    Gas Station Proprietor: I didn't put nothin' up.

    Anton Chigurh: Yes, you did. You've been putting it up your whole life, you just didn't know it. You know what date is on this coin?

    Gas Station Proprietor: No.

    Anton Chigurh: 1958. It's been traveling twenty-two years to get here. And now it's here. And it's either heads or tails. And you have to say. Call it.

    Gas Station Proprietor: Look, I need to know what I stand to win.

    Anton Chigurh: Everything.

    Gas Station Proprietor: How's that?

    Anton Chigurh: You stand to win everything. Call it.

    Gas Station Proprietor: Alright. Heads then.

    [Chigurh removes his hand, revealing the coin is indeed heads]

    Anton Chigurh: Well done.

    [the gas station proprietor nervously takes the quarter with the small pile of change he's apparently won while Chigurh starts out]

    Anton Chigurh: Don't put it in your pocket, sir. Don't put it in your pocket. It's your lucky quarter.

    Gas Station Proprietor: Where do you want me to put it?

    Anton Chigurh: Anywhere not in your pocket. Where it'll get mixed in with the others and become just a coin. Which it is.

    [Chigurh leaves and the gas station proprietor stares at him as he walks out]

  • Carla Jean Moss: You don't have to do this.

    Anton Chigurh: [smiles] People always say the same thing.

    Carla Jean Moss: What do they say?

    Anton Chigurh: They say, "You don't have to do this."

    Carla Jean Moss: You don't.

    Anton Chigurh: Okay.

    [Chigurh flips a coin and covers it with his hand]

    Anton Chigurh: This is the best I can do. Call it.

    Carla Jean Moss: I knowed you was crazy when I saw you sitting there. I knowed exactly what was in store for me.

    Anton Chigurh: Call it.

    Carla Jean Moss: No. I ain't gonna call it.

    Anton Chigurh: Call it.

    Carla Jean Moss: The coin don't have no say. It's just you.

    Anton Chigurh: Well, I got here the same way the coin did.