The Road, needless to say that the book had an even heavier impact, it's anguish the whole damn movie, it's post apocalyptic with a heavy punch of realism
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No Country For Old Men, this Oscar winning mammoth was written by the same writer of The Road, and follows the same mood and pace. It's a "modern western" in my opinion, it's about Sheriff (mostly about him, Tommy Lee Jones, who sees the violence of "new days" - the movie is set in the 80's - and is terrified about it, his kinda justice will not work on the new generation, thus the title of the movie, but that's only the undertone of the film), a mercenary who's a total psycho (Javier Barden) and a badass dumb head citizen named Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin), basically the story is that Llewelyn is out hunting when he comes by a bunch of dead people and lot of drugs, he quickly realises this was a drug deal gone wrong, but sees no money, he tracks the place, finds the money and keeps it, and then he's fucked: the local cops try to put the pieces together (horridly by the way) while said mercenary goes after the money, leaving a trail of blood wherever he goes, it plays slowly and desperately, it's not an action movie at all, but it's basically a man hunting man the whole film. Here's the depressive stuff, other than the slow pace that adds a strange sadness and realism of it's own:
as the movie starts Viggo Mortensen, hides himself in the bushes with his son, while a bunch of people walk past, everyone is afraid of one another since the scarcity of food has led to cannibalism, anyway, one of the guys find them and and Mortensen shoots him in the head, which obviously alerts everyone else, as they hide he puts the gun - which now has only 1 bullet left, he had two before - inside his own kids mouth and teaches him how to pull the trigger etc, so if he ever gets captured he kills himself. THAT was heavy, and then three's the constant fear and the descent into madness when you realize that Mortensen himself has become paranoid of other people, moments of calm are followed by more torment, the characters are put into huge moral dilemmas in a world with no place for such doubts, it's brutal, and very very sad
No Country For Old Men, this Oscar winning mammoth was written by the same writer of The Road, and follows the same mood and pace. It's a "modern western" in my opinion, it's about Sheriff (mostly about him, Tommy Lee Jones, who sees the violence of "new days" - the movie is set in the 80's - and is terrified about it, his kinda justice will not work on the new generation, thus the title of the movie, but that's only the undertone of the film), a mercenary who's a total psycho (Javier Barden) and a badass dumb head citizen named Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin), basically the story is that Llewelyn is out hunting when he comes by a bunch of dead people and lot of drugs, he quickly realises this was a drug deal gone wrong, but sees no money, he tracks the place, finds the money and keeps it, and then he's fucked: the local cops try to put the pieces together (horridly by the way) while said mercenary goes after the money, leaving a trail of blood wherever he goes, it plays slowly and desperately, it's not an action movie at all, but it's basically a man hunting man the whole film. Here's the depressive stuff, other than the slow pace that adds a strange sadness and realism of it's own:
Lwellyn goes through hell and back to escape Chygur, the mercenary psycho, and he manages to do so but he always leaves the scene fucked up, it's heavy because you can feel the despair and the pain, and he understands Chygur, he knows the guy is as stubborn as he is, now that he put in his mind the idea the he'll kill Llewelyn he WILL do it, it's not about the money anymore, but at a point he calls Llewelyn and says he's willing to make a trade, if he gives him the money he'll kill Llwelyn anyway but that's all, if not, he'll ALSO kill the wife; Llewelyn refuses... The story goes on and things get worse, his wife goes hide in her mother's place and Llewelyn goes to a hotel to plan his next move. All of a sudden we're back to Tommy Lee Jones, he FINALLY tracked down Llewelyn and, believing him to be a good guy who got himself into an ugly mess he can't really deal with, goes after him to convince him to quit the bs, when he arrives at the town he sees a bunch of cars in front of the hotel, he runs inside only to find Llewlyn lying dead, full of holes. Yeah, RIGHT, one of the main characters, and the one we spent most of the time with simply dies, just like that, there's no epic shootout, we don't even see him dying, hell it wasn't even the damn Chygur dude who kills him, it's the cartel people!!! It's a REAL death feeling, sudden, brutal, and not giving a fuck about the victim or anyone else, it just swoops life away and moves on. To make matters worse, Barden keeps his side of the promise, he finds Llewlyn's wife and after his usual strange dialogue kills her saying that her death is her husband's fault
