No Country for Old Men

[lefty]

I have it on my DVR but have yet to watch it ...........

[200 miles]

I absolutely have no problem with the plot, in fact I really like NCFOM, but I would have say that Anton Chigurh is probably the luckiest villain in film history.

[stretch]

shouldve been called there will be oil

lmao lmao lmao lmao

[Winehole23]

No Country was sickeningly violent and I suppose the point was to make some sort of statement about the existence of evil and how normal people confront it. But I don't really need to see that level of violence spelled out, for no other purpose than to prove that said violence exists.

The whole McCarthy oeuvre is a meditation on violence and violent men. The perspective from Child of God to The Road changes a lot.

IMO the fatalism of No Country and even The Road (which is the gnarlier story by far) pales in comparison to all of his earlier books. Sheriff Bell's dream in No Country and the end of The Road emphasize a weak, imperiled yet distinct remnant of humanity. For McCarthy, this emphasis is new and tempers his fatalistic, almost masochistic rumination on nature and man's nature.

The real world's enough for me. Which basically puts No Country a step above Hostel and Saw; a snuff film with nicer scenery and a Tommy Lee Jones monologue.

You should read the books. There's nothing else like them. Blood Meridian is a good place to start. Suttree is the king daddy of them all IMO.

The Border Trilogy and No Country mark McCarthy's turn to the mythic, but also his humanistic softening, albeit in the context of vanishing humanity.

[leemajors]

blood meridian is brutal, and so is child of god. i think i was more disgusted by child of god.

[Winehole23]

blood meridian is brutal, and so is child of god. i think i was more disgusted by child of god.

"Who is he? A child of God, much like yourself perhaps."

[Spurminator]

I couldn't get through Blood Meridian. It's the writing style... I found myself re-reading almost every page just to figure out who or what he was talking about.

I really liked The Road though.

[Winehole23]

I couldn't get through Blood Meridian. It's the writing style... I found myself re-reading almost every page just to figure out who or what he was talking about.

I really liked The Road though.

You'd probably like the border trilogy too. McCarthy's style used to be almost baroque. His descriptions of landscape still show this tendency, but it's much toned down in the last 15 years or so.

[leemajors]

I couldn't get through Blood Meridian. It's the writing style... I found myself re-reading almost every page just to figure out who or what he was talking about.

I really liked The Road though.

it took me a while to read. i usually burn though books pretty fast, but i could only read it 5 minutes at a time.