No Country For Old Men.
Jan. 26th, 2008 03:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
whathoI saw No Country For Old Men. Personally, I would've liked to have been spoiled for two things before seeing this: there's a vomit scene, and none of the cats get hurt.
Anyway. It's just ... no. Not my sort of film. I'm a bit baffled really. Seemed to be a lot of deeply unlikeable men trying to kill one another in various bits of Texas. And Mexico. Mostly you knew that whenever the man with the terrible haircut entered the scene, everyone else would shortly be corpses. Ad infinitum. And just, you know. Get rid of the money. Wasn't worth it in the end, was it. I liked the sheriff chap. I saw nothing much in the way of character development from anyone aside from him. I liked most of the cinematography, the acting, the very brave wife who refused to call on the toss of the coin, the kids who wanted to do nice things for people without actually getting anything in return and the enigmatic final scene that quite rightly failed to offer much in the way of closure (and makes perfect sense if you accept the sheriff, not either of the other two, as the main protagonist). But for a film with quite a lot of genuine suspense, I was fairly bored by the end.
I want to see a film with some nice people in next.
Anyway. It's just ... no. Not my sort of film. I'm a bit baffled really. Seemed to be a lot of deeply unlikeable men trying to kill one another in various bits of Texas. And Mexico. Mostly you knew that whenever the man with the terrible haircut entered the scene, everyone else would shortly be corpses. Ad infinitum. And just, you know. Get rid of the money. Wasn't worth it in the end, was it. I liked the sheriff chap. I saw nothing much in the way of character development from anyone aside from him. I liked most of the cinematography, the acting, the very brave wife who refused to call on the toss of the coin, the kids who wanted to do nice things for people without actually getting anything in return and the enigmatic final scene that quite rightly failed to offer much in the way of closure (and makes perfect sense if you accept the sheriff, not either of the other two, as the main protagonist). But for a film with quite a lot of genuine suspense, I was fairly bored by the end.
I want to see a film with some nice people in next.
