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No Country for Old Men
The Coen Brothers’ latest offering, the stylish and stunning ‘No Country for Old Men’, made quite an impression on me when I went to see it last week. It was showing in our local art house cinema and I like to think that the brothers would like the thought of their films still being played in the arty-farty cinemas as well. Tommy Lee Jones is very convincing as the tired and blase sheriff on the trail of serial assassin and part-time psychopath Anton Chigurh, played by Javier Bardem. The lead character is played by Josh Brolin who does a good job all round in this tense and, at times, unsettling thriller. The Brolin character finds a suitcase full to the brim with money, left over after a drugs deal has gone wrong, leaving dead bodies all over the shop. One the gangsters involved is not quite dead, Mexican, and pleads with Brolin for ‘agua..agua’. Brolin legs it out of there and hides away uneasily in his trailer which he shares with wife Kelly Macdonald (whom we remember from ‘Trainspotting’..). His sense of right and wrong gets the better of him as he lies awake that night and he decides to get up and take a bottle of water to the parched Mexican. If only he hadn’t done this he might have got away with it. Drugdealers keen to get their bag of cash back appear at the scene as Brolin looks in vain for the dying gangster and he is hunted down the deserted valley but he escapes. For now. Lateron, the Chigurh character is on his trail and this section of the film was tense, intense and almost painful in its enhanced level of suspense.
This was like a drawn out scene that lasted just under an hour. The trigger-happy assassin indulges himself in thinking he has some moral judgment left when he flips a coin and offers his putative victims a way out. Sort of. There is an entertaining bit part by Woody Harrelson who seems to be destined to be erased by Chigurh from the word go. This is a story of a hard country for hard men where nothing really seems to have changed since the old days. Perhaps the violence increases in degrees. As one of the characters says: “This country is hard on people.” I enjoyed this scenic and sparse testosteron-fest for what it was. An intriguing bare-boned story of crime and retribution, choices and morals, actions and consequences. The Coen brothers are back. |
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