A Deep Analysis of No Country for Old Men

No Country for Old Men is a very realistic, dark, delicate, depressing, artistic, horrible, violent, bloody, meaningful and puzzling film.

The whole movie begins with the monologue of Sheriff Bell (tommy lee jones), which clearly reveals the central idea of the whole movie-"fatalism". Assuming that "life" happens by accident, then "death" will be the inevitable outcome. ?

The hunter Moss (played by josh brolin) stumbled upon more than 2 million dollars, and his "inevitable" fate was to take it for granted that he would be hunted down. But people are born to die after all, and you can't change it. At most, we can only escape by means. ?

Although the whole process of the film is like that of Tom and Jerry, the fatalistic view of "death" enveloped the whole film has long revealed the ending of the hunter in "Born to Die": even if the hunter finally escaped the killer Chigo (played by javier bardem), he was killed by a group of Mexican drug dealers. This once again shows that even if people can hide for a while, they can't hide for a lifetime. ?

Therefore, this film also profoundly shows another central idea-"greed will kill people", just like a line in the film reveals that "drugs and money are the root of all evil". ?

This seems to be a cliche, but many movies still take the trouble to put forward this argument again and again. This not only mentions the corruption in modern society, but also shows the terrible social transformation under the great wheel of time: psychopathy, terrorism, monetarism, interpersonal alienation, moral decay, juvenile problems and so on. ?

Take the two paragraphs in the film where the hunter and the killer are seriously injured, but they all buy clothes from young people passing by. Two groups of young people, although at first saw the hunter or killer injured, will show a certain degree of concern, but when two injured people put forward the trading behavior of buying clothes, young people lost sympathy and turned their attention to money:

The young people in the first paragraph want to extort beer money besides clothes; Although the second group of young people apparently told the murderer that it was unnecessary to accept his money, they also began a dispute about how to divide the money afterwards. ?

The two paragraphs of young people seem to be of little help to the plot, but they do point out the sad values of young people's "seeking money". But who doesn't love money? ?

The whole film adopts a "two-line narrative". Besides the hunter and the killer chasing each other and hiding, a branch line of "the sheriff handling the case" is also inserted. The two narrative lines seem to be irrelevant, but they fully show the views mentioned in the previous paragraph, especially what the sheriff said in the film, which directly points to the central idea of the film. ?

Through the eyes of the sheriff, the viewer saw the corruption of society and the cruel order of the world. The murderer looks so fierce that he can't even die in a major car accident, and then he continues to kill and continue to do evil; On the other hand, the police chief is ineffective in handling cases, but he can only read newspapers, drink coffee, tell cold jokes, or make a phone call, and finally he can't retire and go home. ?

In this way, the film cruelly shows that "people are helpless after all", and the film will not show how great justice is. The delicate observation of human nature and the tragic atmosphere of "omnipotent" and "evil can't be right" make this film show extraordinary momentum and ingenious techniques of the original author and screenwriter.