No country for old men
Off with Lorraine to see No country for old men. A good choice for a dreary Sunday afternoon. It had very good reviews, and of course its title quotes the first line of Sailing to Byzantium by the guv'nor W.B. Yeats, which incidentally is a damn fine poem.
No country for old men is undoubtedly a damn fine film too. The title reflects the fact that violence is killing lots of people in the film, but also the Tommy Lee Jones's Sheriff's increasing sense of not belonging to the world he inhabits.
It is quite gory in parts, but there is something absolutely hypnotic in the way psychopathic hitman Anton Chigurh, (Javier Bardem) never deviates from his course of killing. He is an unstoppable force for death, and violence and his quarry - a man who, happening to stumple over the scene of a massive drug deal gone wrong, takes a bag of cash and makes off with it - is doomed from the start. Tommy Lee Jones who plays the world-weary Sherrif is excellent too, and is full of philosophical resignation. All quite big moral themes going on, but you never feel lectured.
Not a feelgood movie, but there are a few dark laughs in it. Gets my recommendation.
Off with Lorraine to see No country for old men. A good choice for a dreary Sunday afternoon. It had very good reviews, and of course its title quotes the first line of Sailing to Byzantium by the guv'nor W.B. Yeats, which incidentally is a damn fine poem.
No country for old men is undoubtedly a damn fine film too. The title reflects the fact that violence is killing lots of people in the film, but also the Tommy Lee Jones's Sheriff's increasing sense of not belonging to the world he inhabits.
It is quite gory in parts, but there is something absolutely hypnotic in the way psychopathic hitman Anton Chigurh, (Javier Bardem) never deviates from his course of killing. He is an unstoppable force for death, and violence and his quarry - a man who, happening to stumple over the scene of a massive drug deal gone wrong, takes a bag of cash and makes off with it - is doomed from the start. Tommy Lee Jones who plays the world-weary Sherrif is excellent too, and is full of philosophical resignation. All quite big moral themes going on, but you never feel lectured.
Not a feelgood movie, but there are a few dark laughs in it. Gets my recommendation.
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