I have seen a movie before, in which a killer who killed pigs with an inflatable tube kept chasing the protagonist. Can any expert point out the name?

Hehe, I saw this film n years ago. The introduction is as follows:

No Country for Old Men is an American film in 2007, written and directed by the famous director group Cohen Brothers, and adapted from Cormac McCarthy? McCarthy's novel of the same name. The story describes the western Texas in the1980s, because evil invaded a quiet town, which led to a cat-and-mouse chase of five people. This is a fashionable western movie with a brand-new style. "No Country for Old Men" received rave reviews and won four Oscars, namely, Best Film, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor and Best Director. At the same time, it also won three BAFTA awards and two Golden Globes. The film was released in Hong Kong by Zhou Li Film Distribution (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd.

Chinese name

No Country for Old Men

Foreign name

No? Country? For what? Old? man

Other translation names

Don't go near the dangerous road, the mystery of 2 million deaths.

Production company

foremost

Production area

United States of America

be in charge of/supervisor

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen.

dramatist

The Cohen brothers? /? Cormac McCarthy

type

Horror, adventure, crime, plot

Star; Play the leading role

Tommy lee jones, javier bardem, josh brolin

The length of a movie (according to the screening time)

122 minutes

Release time

2007165438+1October 2 1? United States of America

conversational language

English

colour

colour

Old cowboy Moss (Josh? Brolin? When hunting antelope, I accidentally found several bodies, a man who was seriously injured and dying of thirst, a car full of heroin and up to 2 million in cash-obviously, this was the result of mutual destruction by gangs. Moss decided to keep the cash for himself to change his life. Perhaps out of kindness, after saying goodbye to his wife Carla Jane (kelly macdonald), Moss returned to the trading place with a bucket of water in the middle of the night, but he didn't want to get into trouble and was in danger of fleeing. Cold-blooded killer Anton Kuiper (javier bardem), old sheriff Ed Bell (tommy lee jones) and Mexicans are all looking for him. ...

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Sheriff. Ed. Tom? Bell, tommy lee jones, Tommy? Lee? Jones-

Anton? Ziggy javier bardem Havel? Baden-

Llewelyn? Mos josh brolin Josh. Brolin-

Carson. Wells Woody Helson Woody? Harrison-

Carla? Jane. Moss, Kelly McDonald, Kelly? MacDonald-

Deputy? Wendell, garret dillahunt Garrett? Dila Hunt-

Loretta. Belle tess harper Tess? Harper-

Ellis, Barry Corr Bing, Barry? Corbin-

Men? Who is it? Hire? Wells, Steve Root, Stephen? Root-

Sheriff. Roscoe Giddens Roger? Boyce-

Carla? Jane's? Beth grant Beth. Mom? Grant-

By the pool? Womanana? Reed-

Sheriff. Bell's? Secretary box? Gwen-

Strangled? Deputy Zach. Hopkins-

Men? Are you online? Ford Chip? Love-

Agua? Manado? Antonio? Garcia-

Gas? Station? Proprietary genes? Jones-

Management? The victim? # 1Myk？ Waterford-

Wonderful film review

The director spent most of his time talking about the deal between the hunter and the killer. Like traditional westerns, the hunter is a brave, resourceful and character cowboy, while the killer is cold, shrewd and everywhere. If, after several confrontations, the road is as high as a foot and the magic is as high as a foot, he wins the cowboy adventure at the last minute and goes back to his half-dead and bloody wife, it will be a classic western. Only by the director's control of the camera and narrative: the murderer was strangled in the detention room [? Full text? ]

——? Douban | February 24, 2008

If the cowboy and the killer really want to fight, the strength of the two is almost the same, but the cowboy actually lost in human nature. He wants money and wants to protect his wife, so the killer can threaten to control him. On the other hand, the murderer has no humanity, not even "evil" humanity, not greedy for money and lust, and not even universal Freudian traumatic childhood experience. He has no feelings and principles, and the principle is to kill people, which is irresistible as a god.

——? Douban net |20 10-02-22

People die for money. This is still the best film of the Oscar. I don't know if the judges have a strange taste or I have a strange taste. ? "The world, life and people themselves are ridiculous. Don't waste your mind on speculation and theory, because there is no theory without speculation. Things don't have to happen for one reason, and they don't have to achieve anything after they happen. "

——? Douban |20 10-03-08

Film appreciation

The ending of the film is a bit unexpected, and it also gives the audience a provocative thinking. No Country for Old Men's background has evolved into a modern United States that can tolerate more violence and ignore the law. Javier bardem fled tommy lee jones in an embarrassing way. In a completely degenerate world, the culprit of violence is always at large. Black breathing has always been the Coen brothers' specialty, a cruel humor, and despair can also be turned into laughter.

After "Bowling Kidnapping", the Cohen brothers' works obviously reduced the blood and violence, and became lighter and more ridiculous. The three kings who escaped from prison, true love and black boy, the teacher's nurse, are all juggling of coincidence and wisdom. There are still some shadows of mystery films in The Ice Storm and Bowling, but what impresses the audience more is the coldness and satire given in the films. Fortunately, this time, the Cohen brothers returned to the early road, looking for an inspiration in fear and solving all suspense with violence.

From Stephen Bussemee to George Clooney, and then to Javier Baden, Cohen's hero kept swinging between normal and abnormal, and this time, he turned the Spaniard who was once "inside the sea" into a demon, a ruthless murderer for no reason. Baden described this dead figure from the inside out, or in his own words: "I knew he was crazy at first sight, but he was normal." He looks like a terminator with a broken soul. "

Chigur, a killer with a ridiculous hairstyle, has been killing people since he appeared: the most cruel way is to strangle a policeman and kill him all the way with an inflatable bottle. The police detective hardly spared any passers-by until he was seriously injured and escaped. Of all the men, women and children he met, only a grocer and a boy on a bicycle escaped (plus a crow). When he was so angry that he wanted to kill someone, there was only one subtle movement that could see through his heart: turning his head to one side and no one was watching. Kill or not kill, not because of hatred and money, but because of Ziggy's heart that can't peep. Unreasonable murder and violence are more difficult to confront and track, and there are few rules to follow, which will only deepen the horror of the murderer. So that the police officer (tommy lee jones), who stood firm in the film, was helpless in the face of serial killings for the first time. He can only tell cold jokes by seniority and become a commentator. Topic' Old? Men's.

Although No Country for Old Men is based on Mark McCarthy's novel of the same name, it is no longer the original work of the Cohen brothers, but its style and clues really suit the tastes of the two brothers. Just like their previous works "Ice Blood Storm" and "Bowling Kidnapping", all the plots revolve around a box of money. The best part is undoubtedly the scene of tracking a gun battle in a small hotel. The scene, sound effects and lens sense of this scene easily remind the audience of Burton Fink, which is also a kind of repeated editing in and out of the corridor. It connects the whole space before and after the stage with sound, pushes the atmosphere to a climax with wisdom and fear, explodes with a gunshot, and then jumps into another killing scene.

In the face of the absolute superiority of violence, confrontation has become a one-sided scene. Whether it is a policeman, a detective, a girlfriend or a passerby, a small appearance in front of Baden will only lead to death. Only Moss, played by josh brolin, tried his best to deal with it, racking his brains and finally died in an accident. Moss is just an ordinary man who wants to get rich, while Ziggy is a lingering' death', and his appearance is accompanied by a kind of repression and trial. The Cohen brothers are perfect in rendering the atmosphere and exaggerating the sound effects. Every movement of Baden is like boiling point. Moss's greed cost everyone their lives for the first time. All he wants to turn back is despair, which is exactly what the old saying goes: "Ill-gotten wealth is not desirable."

The remarkable thing about No Country for Old Men is that it carefully grasps a kind of introverted tension, which was written by the Coen brothers. Ordinary directors usually tell a story to their heart's content, hoping to hang all the details for you to see clearly and have a good time! But No Country for Old Men. On the contrary, I am very restrained and forbearing. It just touched the point and said nothing more. In fact, everyone can "release" and "receive" is the great realm. Therefore, you will find that the Cohen brothers used many metaphors in this film, and even large paragraphs were directly omitted, and these internal connections and hidden plots have to be experienced and excavated by yourself to appreciate the beauty.

For example, with the same lens of drinking milk in front of the TV, the subtle connection between the killer and the old policeman is actually like two sides of the same coin. You have the shadow of my youth, which better reflects the desolation of the old policeman who regrets No Country for Old Men. For another example, the sudden death of a cowboy was not caused by a killer, but by a group of Mexicans. Except for the woman who died in the swimming pool and the cowboy, the guy who fell at the door was the Mexican who mentioned the box to the old woman. This can also explain why the murderer reappeared at the crime scene, because he wanted to take the box of money, and only he knew how the cowboy hid the money, so he almost ran into an old policeman and escaped from the window.

Black humor always takes a photo at the turning point of life and wanders between life and death in a few seconds. The Cohen brothers are still using' the unknowability of the future' to prove the cruelty of the world. The irony in the film is also a bit fatalistic, and fate runs counter to the viewing experience and chooses Baden. After the car accident, the seriously injured killer can still escape from the police. Although it is embarrassing to escape, there are some comic effects of role exchange, but it also implies that violence is the only way for America to survive.

The End of No Country for Old Men.

Vast, only the silence under the sky and the endless road on the earth can't be seen; In the barren and scorching sun, yellow plants are swaying in the breeze; Silent, the distant border only has elk running under dark clouds, which is a unique scenery on the border between Texas and Mexico. It has the longest highway, the brightest star in the dark night sky and the least population.

When the young sheriff was talking to the prisoner happily, death approached him in his unguarded self-confidence. He should be aware that there is a murderer behind him, and his struggle and cry are in the huge wilderness, and no one responds.

This is the scene shown to us in the first ten minutes of the movie No Country for Old Men. It immediately brought us into a wilderness where even birds would feel lonely in the west, and completely stripped people of their confidence in the vastness of nature, especially when a person walks in the boundless wilderness, every step seems so difficult. The sand brought up by the wind is raised, hot and dry, the air is solidified and dead, which drowns everything and weakens the magic. With the sight and footsteps of cowboy Moss, we quietly walked past the scene where the gun battle just happened. The scene is tragic, but death means silence. Even if the dog doesn't let go, it must be extremely intense. Only one driver tried his last strength to ask Moss for help: "water". Moss calmly searched the scene. With years of cowboy experience, "stop and look back, just shoot me, stop and be in the shadow."

The film has no imaginary violence, but it first shocked the eyes of the audience through cold-blooded killer Ziggy's murder weapon-high-pressure gun, and also confused everyone who died under the high-pressure gun; The signal receiver looks small, but it is also a murder weapon. The faster the red light flashes, the moment when another person dies.

Riggs Black: The man who was invited to look for the money that Moss took, but betrayed his employer, let us witness what cold-blooded killer is, especially when he stared at his eyes with fierce eyes and uttered this dull but unquestionable sentence from his throat: "Guess, this is the most charitable step I can do"? When the words are spoken, those innocent people only have a chance to doubt for a moment, and then they die a minute later. He never relents, and his means are not only superb, but also superior in wisdom. Someone described him to police chief Tom and said, "I don't think he is crazy, he is more like a ghost." He killed the hotel waiter and returned to the Eagle Hotel the next day to kill a retired colonel. After the incident, he was able to walk around the scene. Who can do this and who can fight him? "

When Carlson (Woody Haeerlson), a party killer who lost a lot of money, went to assassinate him, he thought there would be a fierce battle, but it didn't. When Carlson returned to the hotel, he was waiting for him with the same high-pressure gun, and this time it was even more cruel. Face to face, Riggs said, "You don't know what will happen next, so you have more dignity." When Carlson said, "Go to hell."

Carlson once said to Moss, "Even if you give him back the money, he will still kill you because you have caused him trouble. He is an eccentric, or he has his own set of principles. As for the principle of money and drugs, he is not like you and me. " He's right. Carlson left first for the money.

Cowboy Moss: Like all westerns, this is a man's world. "He comes like a gust of wind and goes like a breeze. He must do what he should do." Here, there is no hero and tough guy in the west, but there is the same wild west, and life is dull. Cowboy Moss is such a person, living a normal life and not expecting much, so when he picked up the cash box, he didn't even have any. If it weren't for his conscience, he picked up a bottle of water in the middle of the night to "make up for a stupid thing" and returned to the shooting scene, but when he came back, he was found by the person who came to look for payment and decided to run away. Maybe his result was waiting for Scott to come to you directly with a signal transmitter, and it was this kindness that made him lose to Scott. When Scott stood outside the door, Moss was still suspicious. He didn't shoot at the door and didn't want to kill each other. He just wants to escape or not be found.

Police officer Tom, who may have stayed in this wild west for too long, saw the traces of years on his face and the fatigue on his face, and felt that he was no match for Riggs. He is always one step behind Riggs and can only watch the whole incident develop out of control. When he couldn't stop Riggs from trying to save Moss completely, he was extremely depressed. When he visited his father's old comrade-in-arms, he looked out of the window and said, "I feel powerless."

The pursuit in the film stems from the box of money and drugs, and also implies the price that human greedy nature must pay. When saying goodbye to his wife Carla, Moss said, "If I can't come back, tell my mother I love her", while Carla said, "Your mother is dead" and Moss said humorously, "Then I will tell her myself", which is actually a metaphor that Moss has embarked on a road of no return. Since Moss returned to the scene of the gunfight, he swam across the Glen River, sat by a high rock and clutched his injured shoulder. He already knows what is waiting for him. Moss struggled with death all the way. The film shows this process. When Danzig watched the signal receiver chasing the hotel, the two men were deadlocked in the dark, that is, the confrontation between life and death.

There are two vivid scenes: Moss was injured, and when he was walking alone in the street in the middle of the night, three young people came face to face. Moss traded $500 for one of them's coats and asked for his beer. One of them asked, "How much did you give?" And another person said, "Give it to him"; At the end of the film, Riggs comes out of Carla's house and has an accident. Two boys on bicycles were frightened by the bone on his broken arm. When Danzig exchanged $100 for his shirt, one of the boys said, "Sir, it is my duty to help others. You give too much money. " But after Ze left, another boy had to share the hundred dollars because it was "more than just a shirt."

People's inner qualities will only be reflected at critical moments. Who can believe that those who struggle for a bottle of beer and a shirt will not go on the road to escape because of money like Moss in the future?

In fact, the only person neglected in the film is Moss's wife Carla. Of several characters, only Kara is perfect. She works for Wal-Mart. She never disliked Moss's mediocrity and lived a plain but harmonious life with him. She loves her mother and Moss. When police officer Tom looked for her, she was full of confidence in Moss: "He is the same, he is stubborn, he can solve everything." She suffered the grief of her mother's death alone. When she came home from burying her mother, she saw the murderer as soon as she entered the door. Although she had never met him, she said, "I knew you were crazy as soon as I came in and saw you." I know exactly what awaits me. You have no reason to hurt me at all. "

Riggs: "Guess."

Carla: "No!"

Riggs: "Your husband could have saved you, but he didn't. He used you to save himself. "

Carla: "I know exactly what is waiting for me." I won't guess. Coins don't decide anything. It is you who can decide. "

She was the only one who said no to the murderer. She is poor, but she knows true love. She is ordinary, but she is brave; She is the only one who is not afraid of guns.

What did Scott's last car accident show?

Obviously, this is a very interesting plot, which conveys a message that has been expressed in the film. The world is controlled by an invisible force, just like that coin, because Mousse wanted to deliver water, and then the Mexicans found out. Only when he escaped did he and Scott find him directly with the signal transmitter. Where Scott and Bell are drinking milk, the camera keeps patting the curtains blown by the wind. The wind has always been an invisible and intangible force, representing the fate of each of us.

Scott represents evil, greed and bad forces in the world. Like everyone else, he was teased by the hand of fate and walked out of the car accident for no reason, but strangely, he escaped. How did he escape? Children bought with money even start quarreling because of the uneven distribution of stolen goods. Isn't this our reality?

The most touching scene of this movie:

Seeing Moss wearing a hospital gown, the staff at the border checkpoint asked, "Answer me a few questions: Who do you think can enter the United States of America through this door? Are you a Vietnamese soldier? Which unit? "

Moss: "The 12 Infantry Regiment served from August 7, 66 to July 2, 68."

Border checkpoint: "Let him pass, he needs to go to the store."

These are two comrades-in-arms, who fought side by side in the same hot air in Vietnam and were lucky to return to China. From that tropical jungle came two brothers in the same trench, both Vietnam veterans. One did his duty, and the other accidentally walked through the scene and turned into an alley leading to death.

At the end of the movie, Tom and his wife are chatting at the breakfast table. By this time, Tom had retired. He no longer has to risk his life with a gun. He just wants to live an idyllic life with his wife.

Wife: "You have time to dream now."

Tom: "It's all government affairs. I dreamed of my father twice. He was 20 years older than him. In other words, he is a young man. The second dream seems to be that we all went back to the past. I rode on horseback and crossed the mountain at night. The mountain road is very cold and there is snow on the ground. He passed me and walked on without saying a word. He is always in front of me, wrapped in a blanket. I can see the torch from the fire, and then in my dream, I suddenly realize that he is going to walk in front of me, light a fire in the dark and cold, and let me know that he will be by my side whenever I arrive. "

No Country for Old Men brings us profound thoughts. From the beginning of the film, the young police chief didn't get up after being strangled until Tom said to his father's old comrade-in-arms, "The old man who shot you died in prison. What will happen to you if he is released? " "Angola? I don't know, maybe it's meaningless to do nothing. The time you spend trying to get back what was taken away will only make you lose more now. "

Tom's uncle Mike: "He was shot in front of his house. Seven or eight people rushed in. All this time, he always wanted to pick up a shotgun. They sat on horseback and watched him die. What should come will always come. They won't wait for you. "

Different from previous westerns, there are not only romantic legends and heroic stories, but also cowboys riding horses with guns at their waists. After all, times have changed, and the contest between people in modern society will not represent justice just because you are a policeman with a gun in your hand. What we see here is that violence is more secretive and extreme, and it is suddenly cruel, especially when you declare your merits to yourself and a hand is reaching out to you. This is a metaphor for the increasingly rampant terrorist activities. I don't know when and where the explosion will happen. We are so helpless when we are sad for those lives that have passed away in an instant. I thought there would be a fierce battle between Harrison's killers, Carlson and Riggs, but it was too simple. I only saw blood flowing slowly underground. When Moss said that I had designed everything for him, he even thought that at a certain moment, Riggs would fall down first, especially Tom's footsteps were always a beat behind, which eventually led him to sit at home and drink tea every day. He also told his wife a long dream, in which he longed for his father's shelter and was disappointed. This is not the ending I expected, but it is the ending of No Country for Old Men.

In the film, the audience's emotions and hidden expectations, which were mobilized from the beginning, even lurked on Ziggy like ghosts and embarked on an endless road of killing with him, but we only saw the results. In addition to the violent scenes in which several innocent people died, Carlson and Moss, who were sent to assassinate Riggs, a killer who should have been more dangerous and a Vietnam veteran, fell down so easily, making us feel like being thrown into the wilderness, staring with fear, waiting for death to approach step by step.

Although the story of the movie is about the Western Regions in the early 1980s, the world we live in is actually like the scene in the movie after appreciating the barbarity and boundless vastness of the Western Regions. Globalization has diluted the boundaries between countries, and there are policemen like Tom who are helpless and unwilling to hide in abandoned or abandoned corners in every corner. If you are not strong enough in this world, you will be tortured to death by the mediocrity of your life. At least Moss bravely picked up the gun on the way to be hunted, and died bravely. There are also strong people like Riggs. In the battlefield, shopping malls and workplaces, when their brilliance fades, they will eventually leave quietly with a whole body of pain like Riggs. No Country for Old Men, this is everyone's ending, whether you like it or not.

This film is a rare excellent film in the history of Oscar, which tests the audience's ability to observe details and reason about the plot everywhere. Judging from foreign film reviews, there are very few goofs found in the film, and most of them are irrelevant. Judging from the storyline, the whole film is logical and profound. The moral of this film has been discussed in many film reviews, and the audience has their own understanding.

Film evaluation

Comment in one sentence

This film is very similar to the creation style of the Cohen brothers many years ago. The actor's scene is an important part of it, but it will not overshadow the story itself. The picture is a little rough and extremely unfriendly, but it fits the theme very well.

——IGN

Through the picture, the Cohen brothers are ruthlessly squeezing the psychological endurance of the audience and even forcing people to face this dark emotional abyss.

-"Rolling Stone"

After ladykillers, the Cohen brothers finally found the right path. Through this film, they accidentally found themselves in the period of Simple Blood.

-tendentious magazine

No Country for Old Men Variety Review: The Best Works of Cohen Brothers

The film "No Country for Old Men" gives people the impression that the iron arrow before the bow is opened and the volcano before the fire is sprayed with amazing tension; Continuous sadness and profound humanistic reflection are carefully woven into the gripping plot, coupled with strong black humor, which is really another perfect handshake between literature and film art. This is the best film directed by the Cohen brothers so far. It is a bloody, heavy but classic work. From the moment it was born, it was destined to have loud applause and soaring box office results.

The movie background is set at 1980. In fact, the story is very old-fashioned: drug dealing, huge sums of money, someone sweeping away ill-gotten gains, and everyone in the underworld is bloody. The original work, written in Texas dialect, depicts an unforgettable picture of the American West. The ongoing violence in this land dwarfs the legends of their predecessors in the underworld in the19th century. Those who haven't seen the original will stare at the movie screen, and may turn their eyes away because they are afraid to look. The audience who are familiar with the original work will be even more surprised by the talent of the Coen brothers in writing and directing: gloomy novels can be adapted to shine with genius wit and black humor everywhere, but the profound humanistic care embodied in the original work has not been sacrificed at all. Javier Balden (Javier? Baden's performance is vivid, creating a gangster with distinctive personality-Ziggy, which is rarely seen on the screen in recent years. At first glance, the cold-blooded Riggs are simply an insulator of humor. When he asks for directions or kills people, his tone is the same calm. But it is through this that the Cohen brothers show the black humor embodied in this role. Jones' acting skills are even more speechless. The characters in McCarthy's novels are just prototypes made of him. He plays an arrogant old sheriff in the film, and he is very disappointed with the reality and performs very well.

Let me add here that Llewellyn, who found $2 million, went home with a conscience. Sleep problems decided to go back to send water to the injured man on the truck. He lost a lot of blood and kept asking him for water. As a result, he met gangsters there, and since then, born to die. The tracker in the cash box has also become a prop for the story to continue. Although he found and got rid of the tracking, Llewellyn, who had a narrow escape and strong vitality, suddenly died in the hands of street thugs who had nothing to do with the plot, as if it were fate caused by a joke from heaven.

Questioners are strongly advised to watch this film? Personally, I think the plot is very interesting.