Analysis of the theme of the film and television analysis of "No Country for Old Men" I originally expected "No Country For Old Men" in the way of Hollywood commercial films. I thought it was a wonderful suspenseful and thrilling police and gangster film that showed how Morse, the old policeman and the killer fought wits and courage. , the result is either a last-minute victory for the righteous side, or a death with the killer, anyway, the killer must have been defeated in the end. But that's not the case with this film at all. It's not at all a Hollywood movie in the traditional sense, it's less dramatic, and it doesn't follow a strict causal narrative. I think the theme of "No Country for Old Men" is very ambiguous, probably because the director's own thoughts are also full of contradictions. "No Country for Old Men" is sent from the point of view of the old policeman Bell. From Bell's point of view, this society is degenerate. He yearns for and misses the peaceful life before, when police patrols did not carry guns. But now the world is getting worse, teenagers dyed green hair, wearing nose rings, no longer follow traditional moral fashion. The motives and methods of people's crimes are becoming more and more puzzling. The reason for the killing of the boy he sent to the electric chair was just because he wanted to kill, and the weapon used by the killer Siegel to kill also surprised him, and the various cases reported in the newspaper also made him feel very sad. In my opinion, Bell's view is too pessimistic. People always feel that the current life is not as good as before, and they always say that the world is getting worse, people are not ancient, and they always want to go back to the past. But was life really as good as people thought it was? I don’t think so. When people are dissatisfied with their present life but unable to do anything, they always like to give money to their past lives. As in the film, when Bell went to visit his uncle, his uncle told about the death of his uncle Mike, and he used this to tell Bell that cruel cases had happened before. Another thing that makes me dissatisfied with Bell is that when he faced inhumane cases, he blindly amazed and lamented the evil side of human nature, and spent more energy on questioning how society could become like this, rather than thinking about it. way to solve the case. As a policeman, we are so pessimistic in the face of evil, so as ordinary people, where can we expect to be safe? However, Bell's pessimism is understandable, because Bell is an old man. He will no longer focus on the detection of cases like a high-spirited young police officer who accepts challenges. Older people are probably more likely to focus on humanity, faith, Philosophical thinking is more likely to be sentimental, so "the old has nowhere to go". But maybe the director didn't let Bell fall completely into negativity and despair. Regarding the dream he narrated at the end of the film, I understand it as Bell still wants to "go to the cold night to light a fire somewhere". I think the mood of the movie is really sad Viewed, it shows the indifference of human nature, but it does not ignore the good side of human nature. The film sets up a motif that expresses the state of teenagers. Morse met three boys when he was seriously injured, he was covered in blood, but two of the boys also strongly demanded that he pay first to give him the coat, but at least the third boy also showed his affection for Morse. Concerned, he asked "Did you have a car accident?" twice, and felt that it was too much for his companion to ask Moss for beer money. When the killer was in a car accident, he also met two little boys. One of the boys showed disgust when he saw the bones exposed by the killer, and said "your bones are exposed" three times in a row. Later, the two boys fought for the money given by the killer. Even so, at least the other boy didn't go for the money in the first place when he rescued the killer. So the film probably shows a state of the American West in the 1980s. The state isn't rosy, but it's not utterly hopeless. Analysis of the killer's image Let Reno play "This killer is not too cold", but Javier Bardem plays "This killer is very cold". The image of the killer Anton Siegel is worth mentioning. The first is the character modeling, the most special is his hairstyle. His short, triangular hair made his face look extra long, especially his chin. The hair is black and the clothes are all black. The makeup on the face was somber, the eyes were black, and the complexion was pale. Scared people to laugh. The low-key lighting and dark colors of the film also help to shape the image of this ruthless killer. In the performance, Siegel's facial movements did not fluctuate greatly, except for a few scary laughs, basically there is no obvious. expression. When angry, the face doesn't look angry, but it's enough to make you shudder. Whether it was dealing with wounds or being severely injured by a car, his expression did not seem very painful. Siegel did everything calmly and methodically, step by step. Picking locks, killing people, blowing up cars and robbing drugstores, dealing with leg injuries, and never panicking in accidental car accidents. His murder weapon was an oxygen tank and a shotgun, not an ordinary pistol, which shows that he is a very cruel person. There are movies that portray a perverted killer who gets excited when blood spews out, but he wasn't like that. He hates letting blood stick to his body, for example, when he killed Mexicans, he deliberately blocked the blood with a curtain. Ordinary killers kill for money, but Siegel is an anti-social and anti-human killer. Thirteen people were killed by Siegel in front of the whole film, and there was also a store owner who he wanted to kill but didn't kill because he guessed the coin correctly. That Some of them were killed because Siegel wanted their car, and some were killed when he got dragged in while he was chasing Moss. On the surface of the film, he was hired to hunt down Moss, but the paradox is that in the end, Moss did not kill him, but he killed his employer and the three Mexicans and another killer sent by his employer. died. He was hired to kill Moss, and killing Moss became his goal, and other people from his employer also went to kill Moss. He felt that this prevented him from accomplishing his own purpose, so he sent his employer to kill Moss. and others to kill. And when Moss was dead, which should have ended, he went and killed Moss' wife, Carla Jane. Carla Jane said, "You have no reason to kill me... Coins don't decide anything, it's you that decides", this sentence reveals the fundamental motive of Siegel's murder. In fact, Siegel kills for no reason at all, he kills only because he wants to kill. I think Siegel regards himself as a god of death, and his shape and personality are indeed in line with the image of death. He is reticent, but his few lines reveal his spiritual world. He had murderous intentions towards the store owner, just because the store owner approached him normally. During his chat with the store owner, he had to say that the store owner was talking to him for the house. Wife is married. This all shows that Siegel does not have normal human feelings, so he resists normal interpersonal communication and believes that people's actions are all for the benefit. When asking the store owner to guess the coin, he said, "It's been 22 years, and this coin has just wandered here. Now it's either heads or tails." This is his distorted view of life. He believes that people are just like coins. They are made in a certain year, and then drift around. In the end, they are either heads or tails, and they are either life or death. So he is so calm when dealing with wounds and car accidents, not because of his stoicism, but because of his indifference and numbness to physical pain and life. If one day he died, he would certainly not feel resentment and pain. Siegel is more like death than man. Some analysis of pure film "No Country for Old Men", as a noir film, uses low-key lighting and dark colors throughout the film, rendering the film's gloomy and terrifying atmosphere. It is worth mentioning that no silent source sound is used in "No Country For Old Men", and only a very short section of the whole film uses music, which is a few Mexicans singing. In other words, "No Country For Old Men" can be said to be a movie without a soundtrack. Although there is no soundtrack to accentuate the mood and atmosphere of the film, it makes the film seem more real, more like a slice of life than a play. It really achieves the effect that silence is better than sound at this time. "No Country for Old Men" is a noir film, with low-key lighting and dark colors throughout, rendering the film's gloomy and terrifying atmosphere. It is worth mentioning that no silent source sound is used in "No Country For Old Men", and only a very short section of the whole film uses music, which is a few Mexicans singing. In other words, "No Country For Old Men" can be said to be a movie without a soundtrack. Although there is no soundtrack to accentuate the mood and atmosphere of the film, it makes the film seem more real, more like a slice of life than a play. It really achieves the effect that silence is better than sound at this time.
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