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RE: No country for old men

Posted by David Aiken (A) on May 2, 2008 at 14:30:03

In Reply to: RE: No country for old men posted by Jazz Inmate on May 2, 2008 at 11:57:34:

I don't remember much in the way of scenes of "intense violence" except the choking of the deputy early in the piece. There's actually very little violence in the normal sense of fight scenes. It's basically just more than a few killings are which are done quickly (walk in, shoot, walk out), clinically—if one can use that word here—and emotionlessly. The frightening thing is not the killing but the sheer casualness of the way that the killer goes about it.

I think tunenut really nailed it when he said:

"It is a story based upon a murder and it involves a person who kills about as automatically as he breathes. It's not gratuitously bloody like one of those Hostel or Saw movies. But people are killed. The themes are rather mature and literary, the nature of violence in society and whether our time is different in that respect. It is in some sense a character study rather than an action movie. "

The only change I'd make is to the last sentence I quoted. I definitely see it as a character study of several people in a situation which sometimes has a lot of action. I'd place the emphasis on character study higher than I think tunenut's sentence suggests.





David Aiken

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