Date: November 17Location: Muvico Boca Raton
No Country For Old Men is not only the best movie of the year (so far), it's possibly the best thing the Coen Brothers have ever done. And if you know me, you know that's high praise. This is the first film I've seen since Pan's Labyrinth that I feel comfortable describing as a flat-out masterpiece. The film is surprising and memorable on so many levels that I don't want to give anything away in my description, so suffice it to say that it works as a heart-in-your-throat thriller, the blackest of comedies, a grungy crime flick and (not least) a powerful meditation on violence, society and the evil of which human beings are capable. Trading the bleak snowscapes of Fargo for the even bleaker deserts of Texas, the Coen Brothers have returned to form with a vengeance.
2 comments:
wow, that's high praise. How about the violence? I hear it's nonstop, and that keeps me from even thinking about seeing it. But I'm happy that you loved it.
It is certainly violent, but no more than most movies of its kind. It is the dread of violence that resonates far more than the violence itself.
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