Powerless world

Clifford 2021-10-13 13:05:36

At the beginning of the film, there is a lengthy, chattering narrative of sheriff-telling about the public security situation in the old time--at the end, sheriff said that she woke up from the dream, and the movie stopped abruptly.

The abrupt halt was a bit unexpected-there are still many uninformed lines, whether the old police officer caught the murderer, where did the murderer escape, whether the cowboy's wife died, etc.
The ending and the beginning without any follow-up in itself makes people feel a sense of powerlessness, an uncontrollable feeling.
Title :no country for old men,I think it might means that the world is changing so quickly for people to understand and many things happen occasionally, totally overwhelming of your logic thinking and out of your control. Efforts may have no effect on the things happening..

This a longlasting theme:Every man becomes old and every man has no way to change the reality that they are growing older and older.
World changing,no country for old men.

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Extended Reading
  • Nicolas 2021-10-20 18:58:12

    Did not understand, I gave three stars. I give three stars if I don’t understand it, which proves that my watching movies is too subjective. After all, Golden Globe and Oscar are too far away from me.

  • Ivory 2021-10-20 18:58:22

    Why did Javier Baden remind me of the lunatic in a Clockwork Orange

No Country for Old Men quotes

  • Carson Wells: [sitting by bed] Buenos Dias. I'm guessing this isn't the future you had planned for yourself when you first clapped eyes on that money. Don't worry, I'm not the man who's after you.

    Llewelyn Moss: [in bed] I know that. I've seen him.

    Carson Wells: You've seen him, and you're not dead?

    Llewelyn Moss: What's this guy supposed to be, the ultimate badass?

    Carson Wells: No, I wouldn't describe him as that.

    Llewelyn Moss: How would you describe him?

    Carson Wells: I guess I would say he doesn't have a sense of humor. His name is Chigurh.

    Llewelyn Moss: Sugar?

    Carson Wells: Chigurh, Anton Chigurh. Do you know how he found you?

    Llewelyn Moss: Yeah, I know how he found me.

    Carson Wells: Called a transponder.

    Llewelyn Moss: Yeah, I know what it's called. He won't find me again.

    Carson Wells: Not that way.

    Llewelyn Moss: Not any way.

    Carson Wells: Took me about three hours.

    Llewelyn Moss: Yeah, well, I been immobile.

    Carson Wells: No, you don't understand.

  • [last lines]

    Loretta Bell: How'd you sleep?

    Ed Tom Bell: I don't know. Had dreams.

    Loretta Bell: Well you got time for 'em now. Anythin' interesting?

    Ed Tom Bell: They always is to the party concerned.

    Loretta Bell: Ed Tom, I'll be polite.

    Ed Tom Bell: Alright then. Two of 'em. Both had my father in 'em. It's peculiar. I'm older now then he ever was by twenty years. So in a sense he's the younger man. Anyway, first one I don't remember too well but it was about meeting him in town somewhere, he's gonna give me some money. I think I lost it. The second one, it was like we was both back in older times and I was on horseback goin' through the mountains of a night. Goin' through this pass in the mountains. It was cold and there was snow on the ground and he rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' by. He just rode on past... and he had his blanket wrapped around him and his head down and when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn the way people used to do and I could see the horn from the light inside of it. 'Bout the color of the moon. And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and he was fixin' to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold, and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up...