No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American neo-Western thriller directed, written, and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name.The time is 1980 in West Texas.
Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) chances upon a bag of money and chaos soon ensues. Admittedly, the film's visuals are going to be too much for some. Javier Bardam's acting is fine but the presentation of Anton Chigurh is too silly and laughable.
This is too bad since Anton is vital to the story, his absurd appearance drains a lot of the film as the main plot is Anton chasing Moss for the money, clearly the result of drug dealing. The real star, though, in the film is the murky, moral nihilism that the Coens see America - very clearly REAGAN's America - being stepped in. Though Carter is, technically, president, the film alludes to over and over colonialism, genocide, racism, and gender phobia - in one howlingly funny scene, a fat woman manages to scare Chigurh off. This film has a lot of mysteries that are sure to rile some and entice others. I'll only give one major dilemma people have come across.
Chigurth, at times, is wounded is appears superhuman but there is a lot of visual evidence not so much that Chigurth is superhuman as much as HE THINKS HE IS SUPERHUMAN. One can enjoy the film as just a thriller and nothing more. But the Coens and clearly Cormac are aiming at bigger game. Play close attention to the conversation Anton has with Carla Jean (Kelly Macdonald) as Llewelyn's wife. Tommy Lee Jones also provides a typically great supporting role.
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