For far too long, this sat on my backlog as one of those critically lauded films that I never got around to for reasons unknown even to me. I have a faint recollection of my father telling me how much he enjoyed this film, which is a testament to its popularity because my father does not watch movies all that much, much less ones made in a foreign language.
I am glad I finally got to experience No Country for Old Men - this is a moody, desolate philosophical undertaking disguised as a crime thriller, and a very good one at that. It looks, sounds, and feels gorgeous, and it really is difficult to find any complaints one could have with it (none have come to my mind so far in the past couple of days since I watched it).
No Country for Old Men tackles the exasperation of finding yourself in a world that is constantly changing shape and morphing into something you do not recognize, and the sheer unpredictability of fate which can smite you like a clueless bug under a human foot despite having followed all the rules to safety and success for the entirety of your life.
It is also an extremely well-crafted thriller about the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong, a large sum of money, and a psychopathic killer. An unmissable neo-Western for the modern era.
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