Cowboys, killers, old police officers, dollars, drugs, the western desert, what a familiar scene, but this movie is not the western cowboy movie we are familiar with. The cowboy didn't kill the killer and went home wounded. The old police officer didn't catch the murderer either, and rescued the cowboy to promote justice. Not the logic of Hollywood commercials, although it won a few Oscar statuettes.
The helplessness of the old police officer at the end of the film is understandable, this familiar land no longer has a home. After Cowboy's death, an old friend of his told him, "If he had been told twenty years ago that kids were walking around Texas City with dyed green hair and nose rings, he would have said straight up that he didn't believe it." The officer said, "I've always believed that if people don't call each other Mr. and Mrs., then other bad things will follow." Then his old friend said, "This is the trend, the sad trend." Apparently the old officer also Be sad, he said, "It's more than that, it's more than that."
Today's you is not yesterday's you, and today's world is not yesterday's world. There is no place for the old, because new logic and values flow in this land. Homelessness, because home is a geographical concept and a spiritual concept.
The criminals that the old police officers are used to commit crimes for money or sex, but today's murderer is like a coin of God, he has no such desires, and he kills seemingly accidentally again and again in the inevitable fate of his life. The cowboy died because he wanted money, because he wanted women, because he wanted so much to live. The killer lives because he is so illogical, like a ghost, like a bug of God. Perhaps, money and sex have become so ubiquitous that there is no stimulating pleasure at all, and the illogicality beyond money and sex, as well as the coldness and irony it brings, has become a new substitute. Both the cowboy and the killer are buying clothes. At this time, the cowboy looks uglier than the killer. He is eager to seek a deal because his desire to survive is so strong. The murderer is calm, he sticks to his principles, he believes that his arrival is as inevitable as a coin guessing. The old police officer couldn't catch him, even though he was so conscientious, discerning, and experienced, because this killer came from a strange present, he was so cold, so abnormal, so fateful.
The old police officer narrated his dream of returning home, just like the Master two thousand years ago facing the collapsed world of Li Le, and like Mr. Wang Guowei facing the world with the destruction of Chinese civilization. In the afternoon, I just talked to an old professor and party member about the idealistic China in his youth. Now I am listening to the songs of the former Soviet Union and cherishing the memory of the idealistic Soviet Union. Time is always passing, and values are always constant. Is it true that every old man will have nowhere to go?
PS: The title of the film "No country for old man" is taken from the first stanza of Yeats's poem "Sailing to Byzantium". Like "Lust and Caution", the film is adapted from the novel of the same name, and the adaptation is equally successful.
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