Watching *NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN* For The First Time!

[@DosCavazos]

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[@rexhawthorne539]

Guys the “Evil dead Rise” movie is out … we want your reactions on that movie please 🙏

[@sinisterpanda2738]

It's always fun to see people's reaction to this movie. Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh is one of the best villains ever. Totally deserved that Oscar he won for Best Supporting Actor.

[@buddystewart2020]

Facts

[@Vulcanerd]

Lies! I don't find you sinister at all!

[@kuessebrama]

Oh yes i have to totally agree, there are not much movies where you really fear the villain, but in this movie yes.

[@sam-psonsmith9951]

Best portrayal of a Psychopath in any movie i have seen.

[@Jordashian93]

Javier Bardem’s performance as one of the greatest mind blowing villains was very critical acclaim. You earned that Oscar Javier

[@kdizzle901]

Kelly Macdonald always gets overlooked she’s fricking Scottish and sounds like a perfect Texan

[@ThrashyThrash]

A couple years back some psychologists rated what movie best portrayed a psychopath and they all agree it was No Country for Old Men and Anton Chigurh

[@ThrashyThrash]

@@kdizzle901 reminds me of how the British Vivien Leigh twice won an Oscar for playing a southern belle. Gone With the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire

[@bradbutcher3984]

He did ok.

[@bradbutcher3984]

I don't think he won an oscar.

[@regret.932]

One thing I love about this movie was how each decision a character made felt extremely real. You rarely see this kind of performance anymore on TV.

[@carlossaraiva8213]

Then you dont watch much tv.

[@MateoMendizabal]

​@@carlossaraiva8213literalmente no conozco ningun programa donde los personajes tomen decisiones razonables y logicas, creo que los unicos han sido true detective o boarwalk empire pero el resto que eh visto hasta ahora en casos SUPER especificos lo hacen

[@robincraft4682]

So... Tombstone, Sicario and now No Country for Old Men. This is fast becoming one of my favorite reaction channels. Glad you enjoyed this film Kaycee.

[@ssotkow]

Add Se7en, Fury, Band of Brothers, and Saving Private Ryan

[@jackhuston5298]

Anton didn't kill the trailer park lady because of the toilet flush. He realized she wasn't alone in the building.

[@r.b.ratieta6111]

The thing about No Country For Old Men is it successfully maximizes suspense with no music whatsoever. A credit to the actors, Cormac McCarthy and the screenwriters who adapted his novel.

[@rollomaughfling380]

There's a minimalistic music score, by Carter Burwell. It just doesn't use traditional instruments.

[@RustinChole]

It’s one of the best adaptations ever. A lot of it is abridged just slightly, and line for line from the book. The Coen brothers said it read like a script to them. Cormac is a master. His new two volume novel (The Passenger/Stella Maris) is like…. It’s wild. Heavy, heavy philosophy, mathematics, quantum mechanics, it’s a wild meditation on the merits of being alive, from two wildly different points of view.

[@TheTLElliott]

@@RustinChole And don't sleep on All The Pretty Horses. Have read it 3 times. Genius.

[@RustinChole]

@@TheTLElliott I’m a little upset you’d think a Cormac fan could possibly skip the epic border trilogy. Personally I prefer Blood Meridian, but yeah ATPH is a great one too.

[@TheTLElliott]

@@RustinChole I never said skip anything written by Cormac.

[@Rastafaustian]

You can't go wrong when you choose a Coen Brothers film. No two of their films are alike, but they always have top-tier writing and directing.

[@sca88]

A group of psychologists watched a few hundred films with psychopaths over a couple year period and they all independently agreed that Anton was the best depiction of one. One of my favorite films and a masterpiece also great job by Kelly McDonald from Scotland with a Texas accent and Javier Bardem from Spain with his American accent after mostly doing films in Spanish.

[@whatthehell1012]

​@S4MM-E123Like he's anomalous last name as well, where he originated from is just as obscure as what is beneath that human form he wears

[@kuessebrama]

Yeah i would think so, this movie has the best villain ever. The scenes with him are just so extremly tense there are only a few movies where you really fear the antagonist that much and he makes you feel so uneasy like in this movie. It is scarier then every horrormovie in my opinion just because the villian it written and played so well and the fact that he goes after his sick moral code in some way. It is not like the standard villian wich just kills everybody and you know it, there is always an extreme tension in this movie. I just love it.

[@angelomaurizio1668]

Being from Texas myself too, Kelly McDonald had one of the best Texas accents I'd ever heard knowing she is Scottish. And another thing that was interesting about this movie was that there wasn't a music score to this movie.

[@sifu2u_now]

Just so you know, Javier Bardem portrayal of Anton Chigurh from 'No Country for Old Men' was voted “most realistic psychopath ever” by Psychiatrists, who watch over 400 movies for 3 years to see who played the most realistic psychopath in a movie.

[@graciefolden2359]

The peacefulness with no score (musical composition) makes all the scenes more impactful & real feeling, love the crystal clear sounds of things like running & splashing water, faucets turning, footsteps etc. Its crazy how much movies & tv use stupid over the top suspenseful sound effects when silence can be even more dramatic.

[@rollomaughfling380]

There is a score. Pay attention.

[@graciefolden2359]

Sorry, I stand corrected, there is barely any music in the movie. The Coens wanted a film that was largely silent, which is not common. Usually, a film at least has a score in the background. “No Country for Old Men” does have a score from Carter Burwell, but it's all of 16 minutes of music. Good job calling me out👍👌

[@Henry-fn1zw]

Javier Bardem's hairdo was terrifying as well

[@cleekmaker00]

The scene between Ed Tom (Tommy Lee Jones) and his cousin Ellis (Barry Corbin) in the wheelchair is my favorite; delivered meticulously by two master Actors. Jones and Corbin were also in the Western epic Lonesome Dove.

[@pablolacalle6098]

You can thank Cormac McCarthy for the great dialogue lol, if memory serves me this script is almost a 1-to-1 adaptation of the book 👌

[@EricAKATheBelgianGuy]

"Is Carson Wells there?" "Not in the sense that you mean."

[@gk5891]

It's the kind of movie that percolates in the back of your mind for days. It reaches it's final conclusion in your mind weeks later (or at least it did for me).

[@aworkinprogress4387]

This is such a great movie. One of my top 3 favorite Coen Brothers movies. Javier Bardem was amazing in this movie. It's not surprise he got the Oscar.

[@andrewdunn8778]

A lot of viewers will say Moss woulda shoulda looked for a tracker, but that's because it's the 21st century and we've watched a bunch of movies and TV shows. Moss was a Vietnam vet, the movie was set in the 1970s. An electronic tracker would have been near cutting edge technology, it was not unreasonable for him to not to think of a tracker.

[@extremeking425]

I was 7 years old when this movie came out. I'm 23 now and I will say this, because of this movie, Javier Bardem will always scare the shit out out of me.

[@adamelam6385]

This movie was a masterpiece and he played a phenomenal psycho path. It plays on the idea that crazy people don't know they are crazy in the scene with Carson. Carson asked him if he knew how crazy he was and Chigurh was confused as to why he would ask that.

[@sca88]

The coin flip scene in the gas station has become a famous and iconic scene in pop culture.

[@adgato75]

It's already being shown in film classes

[@prollins6443]

This movie is such a masterpiece! Even watching it a couple times, you catch things you never noticed before!

[@Bill_Jones.]

I just love Tommy Lee’s opening monologue. It fit’s perfectly with what’s to come.

[@lkdonner2087]

The guy sitting at his desk that got shot is Stephen Root who played the nerdy guy with the stapler in Office Space. He's been in a lot of films, great character actor.

[@laughingcow1162]

I forst saw this movie when i was 16 and i had smoked some weed, i was really high and my moms boufriend was watching this movie in the garage and i sat down and watchdd the whole thing, i had an internal panic attack watching it, it left a bad tatse in my mouth, just recntly i decided to watch it again and wow its actually a great movie,

[@jksgameshelf3378]

My favorite movie of all time. Masterful filmmaking and story telling. And it's a Texas film for a Texas gal! And what did you think of Kelly MacDonald's Texas accent considering she's Scottish (she was the voice of Merida in Pixar's "Brave")?? This was the first script the Coen brothers ever adapted, from the book by Cormac McCarthy, and much of the dialogue is right out of the book. The one kid on the bike that didn't give Sugar his shirt is Caleb Johnson who was the evil/crazy brother in Jordan Peele's film "Get Out", among other things. And this is one of the only films I know of that has no score whatsoever. If there's any music at all it's heard on a radio. Just too good in every way.

[@rollomaughfling380]

No, there is a music score, done by Carter Burwell, on non-traditional instruments.

[@MarcosElMalo2]

Don’t forget the Mariachis in the plazita who take him to the hospital! I love Texas and I love Mexico, but that stretch of the border between El Paso/Juárez and Big Bend is spooky. Beautiful and rugged and spooky. Like the movie says, that country is hard on people and I believe it. I’m not superstitious and I don’t believe in curses, but there’s bad mojo in certain places down there, on both sides of the border. It’s naught to do with the carteles, it’s far older than that. I get a bad vibe down below Laredo. When I go back and forth, I don’t linger in Nuevo Laredo. When I go south I try to keep going until I hit San Luis Potosí. Matehuala is OK, too. I don’t really relax in between, although Monterrey is safe enough if you need to sleep. I just don’t linger on the frontera. There’s a Mexican saying I find funny. Translated into English, it’s “I don’t believe in witches, but they exist.” I guess that sums up my feelings about the ancient evil in those parts. I don’t believe in it, but it exists. 😅 Know what I mean, chili bean?

[@crewchief5144]

"HE is just SO desensitized." also Kacee... "Oh, it's just drugs."

[@JurassicGodzillaFan]

Javier Bardem deserved his Oscar.

[@naysay02]

“strolls right back into a crime scene. now who would do that?” turns out, the bad guy and the good guy, both. the writing is outstanding

[@dickymacbeatbox]

seriously under-heckin-estimated film. I will gladly watch every and all reactions to this absolute masterpiece with absolutely no regret.

[@Lugnut73]

i like how there's no music to tell you how to feel, sad music, happy music, just the dialogue and ambient background sounds. really sets itself apart! great choice to check it out! 👍

[@andrewbrumana3226]

17:12 - Brolin grew up in Templeton, California. That jacket is for the local high school - Brolin wore it as a 'shout out' to the small town where he grew up.

[@MarcosElMalo2]

TEMPLETON AFB

[@tduffy5]

Don't apologize for being too quiet. That was perfect. We saw your reactions, and you saved your comments for after. I love when you do a solo.

[@byutube4360]

The west Texas dialogue, accents and expressions are so on point in this movie

[@philmakris8507]

This was filmed right outside Marfa. There Will be Blood was filmed There at the same time. In fact production had to be halted temporary on NO Country bc of smoke drifting through the set from a fire effect on There will be....

[@EduardoHernandez-ry5sk]

Esta película entra en mi top 3 de mis películas favoritas, me alegra que la hayas visto y sea mas conocida, buena reacción, saludos

[@Gort-Marvin0Martian]

The motel at the end where everyone gets shot up is the, Desert Sands Motel. I know all about it because when I was growing up in El Paso, my mom worked there as a telephone operator. Yeah that long ago. We used to go to Juarez Mexico at least once a month for groceries or to eat REAL Mexican food. We also had a maid named Marta (Martha), she was live in except she returned to her home in Mexico on weekends. The Coen Brothers have always done crazy films. Their first, "Blood Simple" was also shot in Texas. As we say here in Texas; Y'all be safe.

[@My-Name-Isnt-Important]

At the start of the film you see three windmills, just as you have three main characters. The main characters make their choices and do what they think is best, but at the end of the day all three have no control over their lives. It's just chance. Similar to how the windmills just blow in the wind. You see Chigurh use a coinflip to decide certain people's fate, and he says to Carson, if the rule you followed brought you to this, what good is the rule. That can actually be applied to Chigurh, he followed a strict set of rules, but in the end it lead him to the car crash.

[@ReneReacts]

The song the Mexican band plays is about people trying to "fly too high", its played on funerals, specially for drug dealers and people affiliated to the drug trade. It is likely the band thought Llewelyn was dead, and that's why they had that confused face when he woke up.

[@ciphernine7824]

Llewellyn made two mistakes. 1) He didn't examine the briefcase or the money before he left the crime scene. 2) He went back to the crime scene.

[@YourMajesty733]

Nothing gets past you, Sherlock.

[@flarrfan]

Going back to the scene is a plot device...If it doesn't happen, then Chigurh finds the money under the trailer after killing the Mosses. As Llewellen acknowledged, it was dumber than hell but without it there is no movie.

[@Alex-kd5xc]

The dialogue being so good makes sense because Cormac McCarthy. I thought the same thing reading the book. The dialogue is unlike anything else I had ever seen before.

[@TheTLElliott]

Look, I know people don't read actual dead tree books much anymore, but the book that is the source for this movie (including all the amazing dialog) is worth reading. Even more than the movie, it will make you think about the philosophical issues raised by the Sheriff. In fact, raising those issues is the role of the Sheriff here, who solves no crimes.

[@MojiBeau]

A lot of that dialogue is from the book by Cormac McCarthy, and the adaptation was done wonderfully by the Coens. Strongly recommend every book McCarthy has ever written, my favourite author of all time. Blood Meridian is incredible

[@DarthCrimsonDeath]

Llewelyn and the woman at motel are talking in that scene, then it just cuts to black in a way it hadn't before. When Sheriff Bell goes by after the shooting, we see the woman dead in the pool. So yeah they died right after that scene, death coming at most unexpected moment. Also, it's not that surprising that Llewelyn did not check for a tracker in the money when you remember that the movie takes place in 1980. People knew of such technology but not in the way we think of it now as it pervades our every single minute.

[@t0dd000]

That dialogue ... Cormac McCarthy + Coen Brothers. Mostly McCarthy. Just amazing. There's a reason he's deemed our greatest living author. A brilliant film.

[@srenjrgensen1468]

I remember watching this, when I was 22 and I was SO frustrated with the ending of the movie. It just didn´t make sense at all and I wasn´t able to tie a final rational knot in my mind. 😑 Now at the age of 38, this movie is my all time favourite movie and I can completely identify with the character of Tommy Lee Jones and his ideology/struggles. 💯 P.S. "You can´t stop, what´s coming" should be taught in every school, before life hits too hard. 💫

[@JamesVigue]

14:37 the sound of the bullet hitting the ground, that whine, was fucken dead on.

[@theiranxican7412]

Fun fact: The guy that plays the Camping store employee (Matt Posey) where Llewellyn buys the tent poles lives in Dallas and owns an stage acting venue. My brother and his friend had the honor to be part of his music band he used and I got to watch the plays they performed free of charge with free wine. Really good plays! And threw fun after parties. I even had the privilege to have his financial help getting out of jail when I got in legal trouble back in 2011 lol 😅 He's a good man, he really is. It was unfortunate he been shot at his home awhile back. He survived luckily but is traumatized. I hadn't heard from him in a long time since he's been laying low ever since so hopefully he's doing okay. No Country For Old Men will forever be one of my favs!!

[@kevinpakkala3721]

This story takes place in around 1980. People didn't think the way we do now. That tracker wasn't a normal thing to think of. Anton was definitely not the kind of person you would ever think of running into, let a lone existed.

[@rdl2820]

Anton didn't kill the bee hive haired woman because he saw in her an equal, the way she stared back at him and didn't flinch.

[@MarcosElMalo2]

Plus the flushing toilet meant an unknown person was nearby.

[@meanstreetmook]

He was going to make the woman talk at the beginning ( then kill her ) but then the toilet flushed, meaning a witness to complicate things. That's why he left, and before that person could see him.

[@Vulcanerd]

Kacee loves animals, but hates people! You heard it here first!! 🤣

[@LokRevenant]

This is sort of how I think about this movie: Anton Chigurh is an agent of the random chance that governs the universe. This is symbolised by the coin toss. When he is unsure of whether to kill someone or let them live, he flips a coin and lets the random chance of the universe decide. As the film progresses, Chigurh never puts a foot wrong. Every decision he makes is the correct decision, from killing the two managers in the desert to get their car, to killing the other people hunting the case, to killing Carson in the hotel room. Every decision he makes is the optimal decision, and it apparently leads to Chigurh believing that the random chance of the universe is bending itself to his will, that the game is rigged in his favor. Until the car accident at the end of the movie. The car accident is random chance turning on Chigurh. Why? Because he killed Carla Jean without her participating in the coin toss. He broke the rules of the game. So the universe retaliates by showing Chigurh that he is not in control; the universe is not on his side. Chigurh succeeds throughout the film not because the game is rigged, but because he has home field advantage.

[@ILikeCHEEZ9]

This movie came out when I was 11 and I had no clue what it was about but I wanted to see it because Anton looked so interesting. I thought he was the protagonist. My first time seeing this movie was last year and I was pleasantly surprised. One of my favorite characters

[@Vulcanerd]

One of my all time favorites, maybe my favorite. Thanks for this reaction!

[@tduffy5]

The reason that it seems so tragic when it's a dog, is that we perceive that the dog doesn't know why. The dog, in these situations, is an innocent, like a baby in the womb.

[@kroanosm617]

The scariest thing about Anton is that we have all met someone like him before. His view of the world makes perfect sense to him and he thinks that everyone else needs to be enlightened about how the world works. In some ways he's right.

[@toddhill7483]

Great reaction, one of my favorite films. More Coen Brothers gold includes Barton Fink (1990) and A Serious Man (2009) Gratitude.

[@MarcosElMalo2]

I just saw Burn After Reading, which I had been “saving”. I was not disappointed. I’m still saving Buster Scruggs for the right occasion.

[@system0fadowner251]

Oh brother where art thou is another incredible Coen bros film and one of the best retellings of The Odyssey ever

[@toddhill7483]

@@system0fadowner251 no doubt

[@backforblood3421]

Yeah, Chigurh has been deemed the most accurate depiction of a psychopath in a movie.

[@kevincamp2913]

Javier Bardem's Anton Chigurh and the lack of a soundtrack make this movie so heavy and intense.

[@UncleBurt72]

I find it hilarious that one of the first things you talked about was how you commented on the dead dog. But you wonder why everyone says look, dead dog. 😂😂😂😂

[@cruesome1971]

I highly recommend reading Cormac McCarthy's books. They're all spectacular. All The Pretty Horses, The Road, Blood Meridian and The Crossing especially.

[@coltonsaylor4934]

i love this movie my jaw dropped once i seen the thumbnail LETS GOOO

[@BloodTar]

I love that it has *no music* at all.

[@chriskola3822]

The dialogue in this movie is amazing. The other great thing is the lack of music. Fantastic movie.

[@demonicrebellion6903]

Another good Cormac McCarthy story is Sunset Limited, the movie adaptation of it stars Samuel L Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones, and no one else.

[@jenkins80526]

What a great movie pick again! I like Woody Harrelson. He's such a versatiel actor. Woody is in a movie called Cowboy Way and I really recommend it! If you haven't seen it yet or reviewed it yet, you really should. Ok, keep 'em coming! You are just wonderful!

[@Jasoux]

There's no one out there who makes Film like the Coen brothers Gorgeous movie here again...

[@machtnichtsseimann]

4:29 - Actually, relieved you said that! In other reaction videos for this film, in the majority of ones I've seen, the commentators show much more compassion...for the dog! LoL. People, we can do both; we can have compassion for humans and dogs. In that order.

[@nightfangs2910]

What bugs me the most, is if I'm stealing drug dealers money, the box it's carried in is first to go and cut all the bands off the money, look for trackers and dye packs in it

[@ExUSSailor]

Javier Bardem was TERRIFYING in this!

[@holeefuksumtingwong5788]

This is the only movie I’d ever agree with killing the he main character off screen and somehow making it work. It’s absolutely incredible. Well done. This ajd breaking bad are two performances I wish I could forget so I could go back and watch them all over again for the first time. Absolutely amazing.

[@HoopleHeadUSA]

Practically no soundtrack for then whole movie but one scene was amazing, still had so much suspense and emotion

[@philmakris8507]

The best modern Western of all time.

[@nickschnider9191]

I believe since the lady was dead in the pool when lewellan was killed he never went to her room.

[@manuelvillacana9284]

Great reaction 👍❤️

[@michelm306]

It absolutely does get better with every watching

[@fern4real733]

Such an incredible movie, definitely in my top 5. #4 being Gladiator, #3 being The Batman, #2 Casino, and #1 Goodfellas for sure. Javier Bardem was PHENOMENAL, absolutely phenomenal, such a terrifying villain and incredible character.

[@offworld_coop]

That mfn gas station lucky quarter scene, Javier was trippin fr. Lmao phenomenal movie.

[@philmakris8507]

The guy that hires Woody played Milton in Office Space

[@Dan-B]

I’m always surprised how many people don’t get why he didn’t kill the motel clerk when he heard the toilet flush….

[@nonnotrucks2502]

Great movie. It is interesting that Woody Harrelson pretty-much portrayed his real-life father who was some kind of Texas Hitman.

[@franciscoacevedo8153]

ES UN EXELENTE PELÍCULA CON UN GRAN REPARTO..EL GUION ES BRILLANTE . SALUDOS DESDE ARGENTINA.GRACIAS

[@TheHighvolt480]

This is the only movie based on a book that i love as much as the book.

[@roryemmons7929]

Should read the book. It's almost exact to the movie except there is a LOT more of the sheriff.

[@geneaikenii1092]

cold. stone cold. wicked hard picture, thanks for your thoughts. loved it back upon it's release still like it today. own the cd. i like your style. shoutout from this old, longhaired, country boy in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. howdy, Texas. take it easy. peace. see ya on the next. later.

[@Wreath83]

Great reaction. Thanks 👍

[@michaeldavid6284]

Chigurh: scariest character since Hannibal Lecter.

[@slikmik7779]

No music. The soundtrack is the West Texas Wind.

[@reynaldolorenzo8409]

You’ve seen Dune so Javier Bardem is in that but this is his best performance and you’ll see him in a Bond movie. If I have to rank his performance would be: 1. No Country for Old Man 2. Skyfall 3. Biutiful 4. Before Night Falls 5. The Sea Inside

[@firemedic5100]

Javier Bardem was recently voted the number 1 psycho killer of all time, and I concur. I watch this movie every time it comes on the boob tube.

[@HerpaDerp999]

A team of psychiatrists compared 400 different movies that depicted psychopathic killers and they all voted that Anton Chigurh was by far the best representative of a psychopath on film.

[@JamesJoyce12]

Cormac McCarthy-twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays, and three short stories - an American genius - people will be reading him hundreds of years after we are all dead - will anyone know your name in 2123?

[@Chamomileable]

Adapted from the work of the legend Cormac McCarthy. One of the greatest writers in American history.

[@construct3]

What did the second dream mean? Every single thing you said about it. When you watch it again (and I'm sure you will), pay attention to Sheriff Tom Bell. The movie starts and ends with him. When Llewellyn is shot by the cartel, we're with the Sheriff on our way to save him, but we're too late. The Sheriff is the moral compass of the film. He's one of the old men of the title.

[@nealm6764]

He finds comfort knowing his father is waiting for him on the other side of the veil, and knows death is close for him. The recent events woke him up to that. That is the way I took it anyway, and there is a comfort to that as I near my end as well.

[@construct3]

@@nealm6764 Yes. My question was to re-focus thought. It's been a year since my post, but re-reading it, I think I was pointing out that even though she described the dream in detail, she apparently had not given sufficient attention to its details. I'm sure I thought that she had focused on the secondary story about Anton and Llewellyn. Many people do. But the story is about Sheriff Bell. The Anton story is an illustration of the change in crime that has caused him to question his effectiveness in fighting crime. The Sheriff's opening monologue talks about his inability to comprehend a new kind of crime and a new kind of criminal. Yet despite all that, he ends by saying, "I'll be a part of this world." "Don't hurt nobody," his wife tells him as he sets out on his journey. "If you say so," he replies. The Sheriff sees things in this world, sometimes all you can do is laugh. But we commit ourselves to truth and justice daily anew. Sometimes the Sheriff needs to commit himself twice daily. By the end of the movie, the Sheriff's consideration has shifted to his older relatives in law enforcement. God didn't somehow come into his life, and there's no sense being bitter, or even disappointed, about that. The happenings in this world are not about him--for his benefit. He can't stop what's coming. That's vanity. God ended up making that much clear, that is, if God lives in a filthy house full of cats. (We are the cats--you and I.) The two dreams show that he has accepted all that. And I guess that's good. At least he might take some comfort knowing that his father, too, went through the whole thing from start to finish and awaits their reunion. And he woke up. You and I are both old enough probably to have reached similar conclusions some way or another. No Country for Old Men reassures me that I'm not alone.

[@nealm6764]

@@construct3 Great post! There is a futileness to this life, and it takes us most of our time to finally figure that out and understand what matters the most. To have someone waiting for you out in that darkness is about the best we can ask for imo. Anton sure as hell won't have that.

[@construct3]

@@nealm6764 Thank you. I went back and watched her reaction video again tonight, and she did pay more attention to the Sheriff than I had thought from reading my original post. Anyway, she had to edit the video after she made her comments, and she did include most of the scenes I referred to and several of the lines I near-quoted. That's evidence that she already saw the importance of the Sheriff, and it's probably why I bothered with a comment at all. But I've been thinking about those cats. The old man, whom I take as speaking for God, didn't even know how many there were or maybe which ones ought to be counted. Most of them were strays, but some are just outlaws or renegades. I forget the word he used. Those cats are to me a symbol of the communion of saints--the saints in heaven and the saints on earth--none of them all that faithful. The food gets put out, and whichever cats want it can eat it, or not. It doesn't matter. The rain falls on the good and the bad alike. I don't think I'm reading too much into that remark about the cats. Cormac McCarthy, who wrote the novel, was Catholic, and God turns up in his novels in the oddest places with the most unexpected people, usually without any mention of God at all. The titular "Child of God" in McCarthy's third novel turns out to be a murderer and necrophiliac. By the way, apropos of your last line about "that darkness," McCarthy's second novel was titled "Outer Dark." It's about a possibly incestuous relationship between a brother and sister. There are two other film adaptations of Cormac McCarthy novels--"All the Pretty Horses" and "The Road." Though I'm no longer a Christian, more than one of my friends have told me I'm the best Christian they know. I just say thank you, but I think of it as kind of a joke. I guess I'm one of those renegade cats. You can't jump out of your own skin.

[@TheNeonRabbit]

The Journal of Forensic Sciences deemed Javier Bardem's portrayal as the most realistic of a clinical psychopath ever in a film. Personally, I worked as a corrections officer (guard) in the Michigan prison system for 25 years and dealt with hundreds of criminal psychopaths one-on-one, all day long. I have to agree. Full-on psychopathic killers give you a very strange but specific feeling even in mundane conversation. They spend their lives studying the way "normal" people behave so they can imitate them, more easily blend in with them. Normal human interactions and connections, even brief ones, are an absolute mystery to them, something they want to figure out. You get the impression that they're genuinely interested in your responses, little choices you make, your reaction to even the slightest provocation. They're fascinated by the way you'll answer even irrelevant questions. You feel... studied. The scene where Anton forced the store clerk to call the coin toss after a series of pointless but somehow intense questions was absolutely spot-on. In an odd coincidence (I think), Tommy Lee Jones played a character in "Batman Forever" who was a psychopath, making decisions about murdering people by flipping a coin.

[@Rocket1377]

Two-Face is not a psychopath. He has dissociative identity disorder. He flips the coin to make decisions, as his two different personalities (one just, one vengeful) clash over what is the right course of action to take.

[@kevjohn2006]

Oh snap!!! I love this movie so much it's one of the last two DVD/Blu-ray I ever bought. Thanos, Coen Bros, Tommy Lee, Bardiem (best Bond villain ever?) all give their best to this film.

[@ZeallustImmortal]

This is, one of my favorite movies ever. I try not to apply a specific moral or message to it, because a lot of that is up to interpretation. I feel like the meaning is that there really isn't one.

[@kmvoss]

One of my favorite films. Thank you for the reaction. "Look at that fuckin' bone."