No Country for Old Men

Kitzrow

Kitzrow

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Anybody gotten a chance to see this in "select theaters" yet? I'm sure it'll be another Coen masterpiece..
 
yea i saw it opening night two weeks ago. It is really really good. For people who are interested in cinematography, this movie has incredible scenes. Especially the very beginning. And the movie is really really truely good. I really strongly recommend it. The ending is a bit abrupt, and artsy? but yea. SEE THIS MOVIE
 
yeah pretty much heard they were making a movie the day I finished the book. hella stoked to see this shit since the coen bros picked it up
 
incredible movie. those wanting to see a regular crime drama with exact justice will definitely be dissapointed, but the ending scene with tommy lee jones was great
 
saw it and it was amazing. some parts were taken out so for me, because i read the book, it wasnt as good as it could've been. i feel they didnt spend enough time with chigurh and the whole part of lewelen with that teenage girl was taken out. either way it still kicks ass.
 
I saw it last night, and it was great. It ended a little abruptly, but other than that, best movie evarrr.
 
I want to see this soo bad. Looks tight. Isnt this like the first movie since like Fargo that the Coen Brothers have done?
 
I just saw it and i thought it was pretty sick, It was kinda slow in the beginning and alot of my friends hated it wo saw it with me. They were making fun of me cause of my movie choice but i thought it was sick. Can anyone explain the ending though? i didnt get it really...
 
well the car accident is pretty self explanatory. the whole discussion that chigurch had with carla jean is moot i guess, in how it relates to his coin flipping. or it could also show his mortality.

the dreams had me kind of confused, but the second one where he dreams his dad rides ahead with fire in a drum or horn or something in the dark i took for showing everything he was experiencing as a cop. he was distraught by how evil everything had turned and i suppose that his father, like him, represented hope in a dark world. at the end doesnt he say something to the effect of and then i woke up
 
when i was watching the movie, during the ending, i had no idea what was happening because i was texting someone. hahaha. what happened with the dreams?
 
haha, I saw it on Friday and zoned out for about a minute because I figured it wouldn't matter. Next thing I knew, I was staring at the credits..shiiit.
 
Crazy cinemetography. So suspensful and intense. When it ended everyone in the theater sat there for like 30 seconds and then left in complete silence, it was that crazy.
 
it was intense but i dont think i really understood alot of the parts. ill probly have to see it again afew times to really get it
 
i thought it was extremely good, but at the end when the cop is talking, i didnt really understand what he was saying and so i didnt listen very closesly cuz i figured there would be more, but then it just stopped, so im a little lost with the last two minutes
 
as taken from internet movie database, about the dreams.....

The meaning of the two dreams can be thought of as Bell's fear of some

final judgment. The dreams are symbolic, so by whom Bell will be judged

is up for interpretation.

Bell

explains the first dream to his wife briefly, trying not to make too

much of it. But, the meaning is quite significant. He says his father

met him in town and gave him some money, but he (Bell) lost it. This

can be seen as Bell feeling as if he were entrusted with something

valuable, but failed to protect it. See this as his responsibility as a

law enforcement officer, the lives of the people he was responsible for

protecting, his father's wisdom, and so on. It's an acknowledgment of

his feelings of failure.

The second dream is connected with the

first. In the second dream, he says he and his father were riding

through the mountains in the old times. His father rode up ahead of him

and went on into the cold and dark with some fire. Bell said that he

knew when he got to where his father was going, his father would be

there waiting for him.

His father going up ahead into the cold,

dark night with the fire representing his father passing from the

physical world into the afterlife (whatever that may be). The fire

could represent Bell's father's lifeforce, or spirit.

Bell knows

he's going to where his father went, and as the final curtain starts to

come down on his life, he's second-guessing his whole existence. What

will his father have to say about it?

In those final speeches we

see that he is really thinking about how he might be largely

responsible for his own failings (the first dream), and for him, going

on up ahead into the cold darkness and eventually meeting his father

means just what you think: He's heading toward the end and a possible

final judgment, either by his father, or God, or whomever. And Bell is

afraid that if there is a final judgment, it may be a harsh one. Did he

measure up to the old-time lawmen? Did he make his father proud? Did he

fail more than any of his predecessors in law enforcement (his father,

grandfather, etc.) did? After all, he failed to protect Llewelyn and

Carla Jean Moss.

He's contemplating what many people contemplate as they get old and the curtain starts coming down on their lives: How should I be judged for the life I've lived?
 
I was so disappointed with this movie. It was visually stunning and the cinematography was amazing. I was bored throughout the whole movie. I didn't even care when Llewelyn died. Usually I feel some emotion when the main character dies. In this case we didn't even see it happen. Why was Woody Harrelson even in the story? He served no purpose other than to raise the body count. I give it a 2/5 only because I didn't find it boring enough to fall asleep and it looked good.
 
I liked this movie. I wish I could have seen it in the theater though.

I think the ending was really powerful. The cop was mentioning his father in the dream goin on up ahead on the trail into the the vast darkness, he said He knew his Dad would be there waiting for him. Then the cop said. "And then I woke up". I kind of got the feeling that the cop character saying "And then I woke up" was symbolic of a broken relationship with his father over his life. And symbolic to us as the audience that life can be unfair and injust, and that is simply the nature and luck of life. Sort of like a coin flip, finding thousands of dollrs, or walking away from a car wreck. (or not).
 
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