Old Men

Aletha 2022-04-23 07:01:03

Nowhere to go, disappointment, despair.

A killer who never had any hope for the future, a hunted person who was desperate and desperate, and a policeman who began to doubt his own life when he got old.

Everything revolves around despair. The killer never thought of anything else to rely on. He was used to living on his own at all times, he was used to hiding, because only then could he hunt and escape. He's used to shooting when he thinks it's time to shoot, so simply. The horror of him is that he fully understands what he does and has his own clear philosophy. He sees his actions as fate. He sees his existence as helping everyone fulfill his destiny, and integrates this peace of mind with him and the tasks he performs. This is the highest state of the killer, and it is also the essential characteristic of all those who have reached the pinnacle in their own field. In front of such an opponent, the same well-trained opponent will be dwarfed by that.

Life is hard to come by. Most people go their way through life. If you're lucky, it's easier, if you're unlucky, it's harder. But everyone is just trying to survive. Survival has nothing to do with the noble and the despicable, either can survive, but only the paranoid can survive.

In the volatile stock market, every investment style can make money, the key is persistence. The same is true in life. Humble is of course also a style, but this style can only make people go with the flow. And some people find a killer style and are convinced that they become one with it. A real killer who never wastes time in that kind of veiled discussion.
He always fires his own bullet one-tenth of a second before someone else pulls the trigger, guided by his deeply held philosophy of life .

And we mortals, like the last wife in the film, asked in despair and confusion in the face of the killer who came to ask for his life: "Can you not do this?". Then the killer said lightly: "You always ask. I came here by tossing a coin." It was fate, there was no choice. Absolute heaven and nature.

This kind of understanding can help us to reorient the discussion of historical issues. With this understanding, we find that all the so-called re-examination of historical issues and the discovery of truth are just a form of political expression and have nothing to do with truth. On the one hand, this veiled discussion shows the pressures of authentic expression, and on the other hand, it also expresses the status of the inquiry man himself. They always fell to the ground first when they really faced off.

This kind of knowledge can also help us to understand and accept all the history of China since we went to Jinggangshan, without wasting time to find the so-called truth. From Shangjinggangshan to 1989, all of this is just what a real master must do. The answers behind those historical events, which have been discussed countless times, are just a natural blow from a real master at the moment when his life is at stake. If he doesn't, he falls first.

Because, for everyone, there is no one to rely on.

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Extended Reading
  • Immanuel 2022-03-23 09:01:07

    I can only say that I am not convinced. Javier Baden’s acting is at its peak, and personally feels like the perverted murderer in the Silent Lamb. It really scared me to pee. Who knows when he will shoot. The whole film has fewer words and more dramas, almost all of which are narrated with images. Unprecedented, super strong sense of powerlessness overflows everywhere, good people and bad people can't escape the hand of fate, and philosophical discussions have a strong meaning. The translation is not good for old people who have nothing to rely on.

  • Lysanne 2021-10-20 18:58:13

    The director spent most of his time talking about the dealings between the hunter and the murderer. The hunter is just like a cowboy with courage and personality in a traditional western movie, while the murderer is cold, shrewd and ubiquitous. If after several confrontations, Dao Gaoyi The ruler is sharpened by one foot, and he wins the cowboy danger at the last minute, and returns to his wife half-dead and bloodied. This will be a classic Western movie. Relying only on the director's control of the camera and narrative: the close-up of the face of the murderer strangling the police in the detention room, the close-up of the traces of the struggle on the floor after the death of the police; the western desert is quietly panicking under the dazzling daylight, in the endless dark night Suddenly the dangerous light flashed slightly; whether it was in the sun or in the dark night, the gunshots always burst out suddenly and then fell into silence. Who doesn’t know if the next gunshot is directed at oneself, life in this desert, fragile and fragile

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...