So last night, I watched No Country For Old Men with my girlfriend. It's a very visual movie, but I get the feeling that the Coen brothers tried too hard. Maybe that's how the book that it is based on is like as well, but I could never pin down a distinct message that the movie was attempting to communicate. A lot of it boils down to Tommy Lee Jones' final lines, but even that didn't make much sense. We ended up turning to Wikipedia to try and get a better sense, but that didn't help much. It seems like a standard crime thriller until the protagonist gets killed...and then the movie sort of meanders its way towards the conclusion.
No Country For Old Men ended up getting the Best Picture Academy Award, along with getting rave reviews, which re-emphasizes my belief that movie critics tend to like stuff that they don't really understand. It's as though the ambiguity of message somehow adds depth.
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