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The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. -Horace Walpole

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Friday, February 15, 2008

No country for old men - do not read if you havent watched

There are, I believe, few characters in fiction that come close to being the psychological disurbance the killer in No Country for Old Men is. By the middle of the film I was feeling a sense of dread everytime I saw him, and it's a feeling that no Saw nor any horror film can replicate in its profundity or strength.

I would say it's a beautiful film, if not for the fact that Moss died. Whatever the literary reasons for him dying, I see no way how his death propelled a very tense match-up between two extremely capable adversaries to a greater storyline height. Another contention would be the way the film ended. I'm not sure if that was how the book ended too, but cormac mccarthy's endings are characteristically cryptical and, I feel, always fail to compound the raw bleakness his stories commonly portray.

Listening to the piano tune of the diving-bell and the butterfly. A very alluring tune, one can listen it repeatedly the whole day. It connects me to Anton for some reason. Oh, the arbitrariness of things.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The story is the sheriff's story, Moss has to die and ultimately made the sheriff realises that time has changed and he had failed to uphold the law any longer like what his father has done. Interestingly, the title is apparently the first line of the poem Sailing to Byzantium which fits in with the theme.

Strider

10:13 PM, February 17, 2008  
Blogger Miao 妙 said...

I didn't know that. Thanks.

5:59 PM, February 18, 2008  

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