No Country for Old Men | Movie Reaction
Added 2026-02-02 00:38:23 +0000 UTC
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No Country for Bowl Cuts .....................in the final scene, the sherrif mentions that in his dream he's the older man to his younger father who carries the flame (hope) in the cold (dead darkness). it's nice to think this is what the title is actually referring to, that the future is hopeful...the book's author McCarthy refers to this image more than once as well, that it's the young who are the mentors to the old, using Wordsworth in the book Blood Meridian : "the child, the father of the man" https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/249420-i-had-two-dreams-about-him-after-he-died-i
Bolt G
2026-02-05 04:37:47 +0000 UTCThere are some absolutely amazing Korean movies out there. Excited for y'all to see them
Dylan
2026-02-04 16:52:25 +0000 UTCThe gas station clerk is one of my favorite one scene performances by a character actor. Javier is of course incredible in that scene but he's a known powerhouse. The actor for clerk stood toe to toe with him in that scene, really selling the cold sweat fear.
David Holmes
2026-02-03 04:34:19 +0000 UTCToo many comments to check and see if anyone said that the sheriff’s wife was Jesse Pinkman’s mom. And the sheriff’s old uncle at the end was in Better Call Saul when Kim told Jimmy to represent him in a fight to keep his house and fucked over Mesa Verde in the process. Good flick and prettt damn close to a scene for scene adaptation. A little fat got trimmed from the novel but nothing major was changed. Good stuff, movie seems to get a bit of shit and I’m assuming it has to do with the offscreen death and bad guy getting away. In the book all that happens plus they let you know the sheriff felt a deep sense of failure. Literally ended with it saying dude felt like a big ol loser lmfao. I’m from the Stephen King school of unhappy endings so this one wasn’t so bad for me but I can see it leaving folks with a bad taste in their mouths. Unfortunately more oft than not the bad guys get away with it all smh.
Truemeathead
2026-02-03 04:06:50 +0000 UTCanton has nothing on the cruelty of systems in saying "[t]he coin don't have no say. It's just you", Carla Jean centers that cruelty is enacted by human agency, not chance like ok you might get randomly hit by lighting, car, illness, or by a wild animal, but importantly those instances are rare, and not done with malice 99.9% of brushes w/ violence are bc ppl have chosen to inflict it as individuals, or systematically. this view pairs with the 2nd dream. it's a call to action after experiencing disillusionment. yes, the world is cruel, and has been for awhile, but it's not set in stone. people have the power to reject cruelty, to become those "fixin' to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold," creating small pockets of change in the present, and forging a different path for future generations
on crip ...
2026-02-03 02:09:12 +0000 UTCThe day they finally watch One Battle After Another, is the day I can finally rest 😭 it won soo many awards in 2025, it's crazy good
Ridley
2026-02-02 23:14:44 +0000 UTCthis quote is the whole movie (from what i remember) and ever so relevant, rich with meaning "What you got ain’t nothin new. This country is hard on people. You can’t stop what’s comin’. Ain’t all waitin’ on you. That’s vanity." i've only watched once before. looking forward to a rewatch and hearing the analysis. rn im steadfast it's NOT about nihilism/random chaos which i think i've see in other discussions. i haven't read comments here yet
on crip ...
2026-02-02 22:05:48 +0000 UTCEnjoyed seeing you react to this. You're very skilled at analysing TV shows, and this is a movie that doesn't follow convention at all.
Chidi.
2026-02-02 20:08:05 +0000 UTCI really hope we get some more Coen bros movies. They're all good, but some personal favourites are O Brother Where Art Thou?, True Grit, Inside Llewyn Davis (not Llewellyn lol), and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Ballad of Buster Scruggs is probably my favourite. But a lot of people didn't seem to like it because it's an anthology of six short films in one rather than one, movie length feature. But the stories are great and they work so well to tell an overarching theme that you don't quite understand til the end l, just like NCFOM.
Alex Bernier
2026-02-02 19:09:12 +0000 UTCTwo reminders in movie of my personal experience in Texas at the time. First, the phone bill -- we had service through Southwestern Bell Telephone Company. Second, Texaco stations were all over Texas. Texaco founded in 1902 in SE Texas near where I went to high school in 1977-81. Many of my friends' dads worked at nearby Texaco refinery -- one of the largest refineries in the country -- and in which had huge acrimonious strike (4,200 employees) that went on so long that my friends' families ran out of strike money. SE Texas petrochemical industry had some of the strongest unions in the country.
Clay F
2026-02-02 16:48:18 +0000 UTC
