Film Blog entry # 2 Com 104
“No Country for Old Men”
By the Coen Brothers
The
movie begins with a hunter in West Texas who stumbles upon a drug deal that has
gone awry. As he walks around the crime
scene, he finds the dead bodies of the people involved along with their
dogs. At the end of this search he finds
one man badly wounded and asking for water.
He ignores the man’s plea for water or help and takes the money from the
crime scene and begins to dream of a new life.
During the overnight he must have had an attack of conscious about the
victims he didn’t help.
Early the next
morning he heads back out to the crime scene to see if he can help the last
survivor. He is chased by a group of
criminals, who were sent there to recover the drugs and money. He barley escapes from them with his
life. This begins a few day odyssey of him
trying to avoid a group of Mexican criminals and a psychopathic killer who are
trying to kill him. The movie takes the
viewers on a wild ride through Texas and Mexico as people are shot and killed
repeatedly. Tommy Lee Jones stars as the
sheriff of the County where this crime has been committed.
He is attempting to figure out what exactly when
on and who is involved. Throughout the
movie he begins to question himself about the world in which we are living and
if his is past his prime. He has thought
of retiring but the events of the next few days begin to have a huge effect on
him and his decision.
The
main topic of this film is pointing out the violence associated with drugs and
the gangs that operate the sale and distribution of them. The violence that is so rampant in the inner
cities and even in desolate places of west Texas is very troubling for
society. This film also shows the cost
in money and human life that the drug trade has cost the government of the
United States and its citizen’s.
I
personally did not care for the film. To
me, it had many subplots that were never totally explained which left me
wondering a bit. I wish that the
director had delved into more of the other characters lives and
backgrounds. I believe this would have
helped to enhance the movie for me and perhaps others. Once again this film just glamorized the
senseless killing of people for no reason.
Perhaps if the film contained a little less violence and added some more
character study, it would have had more appeal to me. After hearing so much about this film when it
came out, I found myself a little disappointed after seeing it.
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