No Country for Old Men: A++
A very excellent, compelling suspense film that brings a modern context to the classic, hardboiled Western.
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Spoiler-free observations.
1. Javier Bardem's Anton Chigurh is the most compelling, disturbing and evil sociopath since the Hopkins did Lecter in SOTL.
2. Sometimes people do the wrong thing to the wrong people. Sometimes you don't understand that you did it, there is a cost to that ignorance.
3. Josh Brolin does a great, hardboiled everyman character who stumbles on the fortune of a lifetime. He is on a major roll this year.
4. Tommy Lee Jones and Woody Harrelson do a good job in filling in some of the blanks, with good performances.
5. Lastly, I admire the structure of the storytelling. Your expectations of who the story is about will change, not like Star Wars is really about DarthVader/Anakin -- but similar in that you need to pay attention or you may be disappointed with the ending.
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