About the beginning and end of the film

Yvonne 2022-04-22 07:01:02

It can be said that the monologue of the old policeman at the beginning and the end is very good for the movie.
At the beginning, the old policeman said: "There is this boy i sent to the electric chair in Huntsville here a while back. He killed a fourteen-year -old girl. Papers said it was a crime out of passion but he told me there wasn't any passion to it. He'd been planning to kill someone for about as long as he could remember." A boy who has been since he can remember Planning to kill people, this is crazy and incomprehensible to this old man, this may be the young man's world that the old policeman understands, absurd and extreme.
He added: "I always knew you had to be willing to die to even do this job. But I don't want to push my chips forward and go out and meet something I don't understand." For him, the outside world is something he cannot understand, Continuing to do the job he's been doing since he was 25 may bring him some comfort.

However, when he's overwhelmed by mad and inhuman criminals, he may be the only solace in that

At the end, in his dream, he dreamed of his fathers, holding moonlight torches on the cold and dark mountain road. He always misses
, even these fathers are in the dark Gave him his only hope,"I knew that whenever I got there he'd be there."
These are all the strongest explanations for the title "no country for old men"

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Extended Reading
  • Quinn 2021-10-20 18:58:09

    The plot is great, this is the movie with the least soundtrack I have ever seen

  • Lea 2021-10-20 18:59:34

    Oscar would award the best film to such a dark work, and the reed killer played by Javier Baden is as cold-blooded as death. The narrative is calm and temperate, but most of the time it is frightening. The empty and lonely Texas wasteland reflects the individual's powerlessness and fragility in the face of the mysterious and unpredictable evil. When the emotions were strained to the limit, the Coen brothers directly omitted the climax, leaving only the staring audience silently savoring despair and nothingness. (9.5/10)

No Country for Old Men quotes

  • 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.

  • [first lines]

    Ed Tom Bell: I was sheriff of this county when I was twenty-five years old. Hard to believe. My grandfather was a lawman; father too. Me and him was sheriffs at the same time; him up in Plano and me out here. I think he's pretty proud of that. I know I was. Some of the old time sheriffs never even wore a gun. A lotta folks find that hard to believe. Jim Scarborough'd never carried one; that's the younger Jim. Gaston Boykins wouldn't wear one up in Comanche County. I always liked to hear about the oldtimers. Never missed a chance to do so. You can't help but compare yourself against the oldtimers. Can't help but wonder how they would have operated these times. There was this boy I sent to the 'lectric chair at Huntsville Hill here a while back. My arrest and my testimony. He killt a fourteen-year-old girl. Papers said it was a crime of passion but he told me there wasn't any passion to it. Told me that he'd been planning to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember. Said that if they turned him out he'd do it again. Said he knew he was going to hell. "Be there in about fifteen minutes". I don't know what to make of that. I sure don't. The crime you see now, it's hard to even take its measure. It's not that I'm afraid of it. I always knew you had to be willing to die to even do this job. But, I don't want to push my chips forward and go out and meet something I don't understand. A man would have to put his soul at hazard. He'd have to say, "O.K., I'll be part of this world."