No Country For Old Men Essay
Film Evaluation: No Country For Old Men
The film No Country for Old Men, directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, stars Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, and Javier Bardem. This film would best be described as an edge of your seat suspense, yet includes moments of dry, yet twisted and sadistic humor. One may not pick up on it if they are not paying close enough attention. This film is good at keeping the audience wondering what’s going to happen next and does not fully give away the plot until further into the movie, unlike most do. No Country for Old Men weighs in at just over two hours, but there will not be a dull moment in sight. The film takes place in 1980 in West Texas and paves the way for anything from drug running to action packed shootouts. …show more content…
Brolin is the typical, country born and raised cowboy someone would expect from West Texas, living in a small trailer with his wife and no kids. He enjoys getting laughs at her expense, but there is a certain feeling of discontent from Brolin. One day he is out hunting and makes a less than perfect shot on an antelope, which he attempts to track down using the blood trail. That blood trail leads him to what he ends thinking is his lucky day. Brolin approaches several vehicles in the middle of the desert and finds several dead bodies that appear to be the aftermath of a Mexican standoff, fully automatic weapons at their sides. He opens the door to one vehicle and finds a man, shot in the stomach, barely alive and begging for water. He leaves him for dead and finds a large stash of heroin in the bed of the vehicle and shortly thereafter, finds a bag with two million dollars inside. That bag of money opens up the storyline and puts Brolin on Bardem’s “to do” list, after Brolin has a sudden and intense feeling of guilt, returning later that night to bring the dying man some water. He observes men in a vehicle slash his tires and he barely escapes several shots fired by the unknown men. Bardem is then hired to get the money back. Brolin sends his wife packing and he too takes flight with Bardem in close
The film No Country for Old Men, directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, stars Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, and Javier Bardem. This film would best be described as an edge of your seat suspense, yet includes moments of dry, yet twisted and sadistic humor. One may not pick up on it if they are not paying close enough attention. This film is good at keeping the audience wondering what’s going to happen next and does not fully give away the plot until further into the movie, unlike most do. No Country for Old Men weighs in at just over two hours, but there will not be a dull moment in sight. The film takes place in 1980 in West Texas and paves the way for anything from drug running to action packed shootouts. …show more content…
Brolin is the typical, country born and raised cowboy someone would expect from West Texas, living in a small trailer with his wife and no kids. He enjoys getting laughs at her expense, but there is a certain feeling of discontent from Brolin. One day he is out hunting and makes a less than perfect shot on an antelope, which he attempts to track down using the blood trail. That blood trail leads him to what he ends thinking is his lucky day. Brolin approaches several vehicles in the middle of the desert and finds several dead bodies that appear to be the aftermath of a Mexican standoff, fully automatic weapons at their sides. He opens the door to one vehicle and finds a man, shot in the stomach, barely alive and begging for water. He leaves him for dead and finds a large stash of heroin in the bed of the vehicle and shortly thereafter, finds a bag with two million dollars inside. That bag of money opens up the storyline and puts Brolin on Bardem’s “to do” list, after Brolin has a sudden and intense feeling of guilt, returning later that night to bring the dying man some water. He observes men in a vehicle slash his tires and he barely escapes several shots fired by the unknown men. Bardem is then hired to get the money back. Brolin sends his wife packing and he too takes flight with Bardem in close