MOVIE Review - No Country for Old Men

[Ldawg]

Anyone get the end of the movie ?

Although the movie was Good I'm a little fuzzy on the ending .... and I don't really want to have to buy the book to figure it out !

Trailers ....


http://www.nocountryforoldmen.com/



******* DISCLAIMER ********

If you do not want to know how the movie ends .... then this IS NOT the thread for you .

I recommend the movie and, I would not want to know much more about it without seeing it 1st ! JMO

[Ldawg]

Anyone get the end of the movie ?

Although the movie was Good I'm a little fuzzy on the ending .... and I don't really want to have to buy the book to figure it out !

Trailers ....


http://www.nocountryforoldmen.com/



******* DISCLAIMER ********

If you do not want to know how the movie ends .... then this IS NOT the thread for you .

I recommend the movie and, I would not want to know much more about it without seeing it 1st ! JMO

The DATE on the Grave Stone near the end of the film would be a hint as to TIME frame .... Did you catch the Date of Mom's Passing ?

[kbsooner21]

[BigWeiner]

DON'T READ THIS IF YOU HAVEN"T SEEN THE MOVIE

Great movie, my favorite of the year

Ed Tom (Jones) has already decided on retirement (life) rather than bringing the killer (Bardem) to justice. He knows he found the killer. The Sheriff retires because he realizes that the country he covers (south Texas) is No Country for Old Men. So in the end, he sits at the table and tells his wife about a dream: he heads into snowy, dangerous mountains (his life as a sheriff), and a man goes on ahead of him to await him (the killer still awaits). And then he woke up to the fact that in real life he was acting out this dream. So in the end, rather than live the nightmarish, lethal continuation of the dream, he wakes up to choosing the safer life of retirement. He has taken the lesson from his forcibly retired colleague in the wheelchair: a life of disability isn't worth it.

Actually, the Coen brothers left a big clue when Sheriff Ed Tom goes to the hotel room (behind the crime scene yellow tape) where the assassin, Chigurh, waits. Chigurh has shot the lock cylinder out, indicating to Ed that it's Chigurh's doing, and BOTH of them watch the other's movement in the reflection in the shiny lock tube. Ed Tom draws his pistol and enters for a search, and realizes the killer is still within, given the locked window in the far room.

"Momma, take this badge offa me, ... I feel I'm knockin on heaven's door." -- Bob Dylan, and it's beautifully captured on Jones' old, wincing face when he sits on the bed. So rather than shoot it out, he trusts the killer not to kill him, and he walks out, without pushing it to the point where the killer's other victims utter, "You don't have to do that."

So rather than risk his life, he lets go of capturing his quarry and retires.

Recall that the Sheriff is narrating the past at the beginning of the movie, a clue that he's still alive after the action of the rest of the movie.

Telling his wife of the dream is the final act of letting go of his job, and the movie screen goes black.

[Ldawg]

DON'T READ THIS IF YOU HAVEN"T SEEN THE MOVIE

Great movie, my favorite of the year

Ed Tom (Jones) has already decided on retirement (life) rather than bringing the killer (Bardem) to justice. He knows he found the killer. The Sheriff retires because he realizes that the country he covers (south Texas) is No Country for Old Men. So in the end, he sits at the table and tells his wife about a dream: he heads into snowy, dangerous mountains (his life as a sheriff), and a man goes on ahead of him to await him (the killer still awaits). And then he woke up to the fact that in real life he was acting out this dream. So in the end, rather than live the nightmarish, lethal continuation of the dream, he wakes up to choosing the safer life of retirement. He has taken the lesson from his forcibly retired colleague in the wheelchair: a life of disability isn't worth it.

Actually, the Coen brothers left a big clue when Sheriff Ed Tom goes to the hotel room (behind the crime scene yellow tape) where the assassin, Chigurh, waits. Chigurh has shot the lock cylinder out, indicating to Ed that it's Chigurh's doing, and BOTH of them watch the other's movement in the reflection in the shiny lock tube. Ed Tom draws his pistol and enters for a search, and realizes the killer is still within, given the locked window in the far room.

"Momma, take this badge offa me, ... I feel I'm knockin on heaven's door." -- Bob Dylan, and it's beautifully captured on Jones' old, wincing face when he sits on the bed. So rather than shoot it out, he trusts the killer not to kill him, and he walks out, without pushing it to the point where the killer's other victims utter, "You don't have to do that."

So rather than risk his life, he lets go of capturing his quarry and retires.

Recall that the Sheriff is narrating the past at the beginning of the movie, a clue that he's still alive after the action of the rest of the movie.

Telling his wife of the dream is the final act of letting go of his job, and the movie screen goes black.

Wow ... now that is a good interpretation and prolly correct .

However .... In the 2nd dream it was the Sheriff's father , with a fire carried in a horn , that rode ahead into that " dark , cold night" to prepare a place for him . What was the 1st dream ? And , why didn't the killer kill him ... didn't know him from Adam , so I don't think that it was out of respect .

Never the less a good Texas saga .... and good interpt by you ! Only thing that bothered me was that , unless there was a date on the Mom's gravestone .... there was nothing that noted HOW Much time had passed .

He may have retired to survive ... but, I think he was also, haunted by the one that got away !

[Ldawg]

Now,now .... we all know that when you finish your "LAW ENFORCEMENT" classes , you intend to move to AUSTIN and become a TEXAS RANGER !

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