No Country for Old Men
by Robbo
Posted on 2 June 2021
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No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American neo-Western crime thriller film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on Cormac McCarthy’s 2005 novel of the same name.
Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin, the film is set in the desert landscape of 1980 West Texas.
The film revisits the themes of fate, conscience, and circumstance that the Coen brothers had explored in the films Blood Simple (1984), Raising Arizona (1987), and Fargo (1996).
The film follows three main characters: Llewelyn Moss (Brolin), a Vietnam War veteran and welder who stumbles upon a large sum of money in the desert; Anton Chigurh (Bardem), a mysterious hitman who is tasked with recovering the money; and Ed Tom Bell (Jones), a local sheriff investigating the crime.
The film also stars Kelly Macdonald as Moss’s wife Carla Jean, and Woody Harrelson as a bounty hunter seeking Moss and the return of the $2 million.
No Country For Old Men is a gripping thriller which builds the suspense and is totally absorbing from start to finish.
The film is visually stunning making full use of the barren, yet beautiful desert landscape of Texas.
The main cast give solid performances, but special praise must be given to Javier Bardem in hos role as the mysterious and incredibly weird hitman, Anton Chigurh. Well deserving of his Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
This film is a modern classic, well deserving of it’s Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.
This is definitely high on my list of films you must see, unmissable.
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