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Originally Posted by henryrobinett  I don't think so. The theme of the movie was "No COUNTRY for OLD MEN."
You have a murderous bastard who kills people by flipping a coin and thinks only of himself and his greed. The closest to retribution he gets is being stabbed in the leg, (or was he shot?) and to get hit by a car when he wasn't looking, -- a completely serendipitous act entirely unrelated to consequences. Where are his consequences? Where is his cause and effect?
You're talking about the loser who found the money and decided he'd get away with something for nothing. That's a crucial part of the story, but the message is completely obfuscated by the murderous Mephisto. He ran into the devil. Actions are met by the devil. If he as THE DEVIL that'd be one thing, but he wasn't. He was merely a powerful incarnation of evil, and losers act threw him into his own irretrievable consequences. As soon as he came back his fait was sealed.
What's complicated. I thought it was OK, but certainly not the picture territory and nothing to write hoe about. I mean, I REALLY didn't like it. Acting was fine. Direction was fine. The starkness of the "score" was very dramatic. Cinematography was fine. The morality of the story I despised. |
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THe consequence was that Josh Brolin's character was given a choice to save his wife's life or keep the money and his own life. In the end he lost everything because of his decision. That's consequence.
imo, one of the key point's of the movie was "chance", how random life is, "chaos theory". This was repeatedly illustrated throughout the movie. Chigurh's coin tosses of course and when Tommy Lee Jones related the story of the farmer trying to shoot the steer but shot himself. Nothing is preordained. Even Chigurh's character is not immune to the universe's merciless indifference when he get's into the violent accident at the end. The title No Country For Old Men is not to be taken literally in the sense of older generations not understanding modern times in socialogical terms. It's that Man's once faith in a solid orderly universe has been shaken by modern science and philosophy; discoveries into quantum mechanics, string theory, "chaos theory", etc. The death of God. My 2 cents.