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[@potbelliedpowermodel]

(apologies if someone already said this) The title is a reference to a poem called "Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats. The first line is "That is no country for old men." The poem is kind of a meditation on the pain of growing old, so it fits with this movie really well. One of the big lines is "Consume my heart away; sick with desire / and fastened to a dying animal..." Heartwrenching poem, but it's short and available online and very good, if anyone's interested.

[@robmann400]

NCFOM is all about sailing. Sailing away from something, and sailing towards something, as we all do. The denial of death and the attempt at coming to terms with the idea of our own mortality. In the poem there’s a tie in to The Aeneid which is originally a commissioned work in order to provide a foundation myth to justify it’s Empire and Rome’s own Manifest Destiny, tying it all the way back to Homer’s Troy. The poem refers to a specific part of the Aeneid, the part where Aeneas is visiting his father’s shadow in the Underworld. This seemingly ties into the end scene of the movie with Bell’s dream of fire in a horn quite nicely. Cervantes is also referred to at the start of the movie during Bell’s narration. Three windmills are shown. Don Quixote is not the best example in literature of an old man gracefully coming to terms with his own mortality. Bell who opens and closes the film is the main character. NCFOM is like The Shining, there’s a rabbit hole to go down option everywhere you look.

[@MattyNoNose]

Moss isn’t really the main character. The Sheriff is. He’s the narrator. I think that’s why the Cohens felt they could kill Moss off screen. It’s a very uniquely put together story. Classic stuff.

[@shanes.1724]

I always found it interesting that Moss got a lot more screen time

[@helvete_ingres4717]

I read the book around when the movie came out so a very long time ago, but I seem to remember that's exactly how it is in the book so they're just following that

[@Camothor10]

Nah Moss is definitely the main character he is the main focus of the film for most of it

[@phj223]

Having Moss be killed, unceremonsiously and even off camera is actually brilliant. It's the precise opposite of plot armor that's so prevalent in movies and tv shows these days, and it anchors the movie firmly in real life. In real life there are no main characters, just characters. These can be lucky ones, or unlucky ones, and there is no plot armor.

[@Epistolary8]

Plot armor isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Would Lord of the Rings be as beloved as it is if, say, Frodo got headshotted by an arrow halfway through the film and the story ended right after?

[@phj223]

@@Epistolary8 Well, no.. oh god.. how can I even.. I think your comment is an indication that you are 100% missing the point of my post

[@jeremiahalonzo]

No plot armor in real life, are you kidding? Let me introduce you to wealth inequality in America...

[@azazello1784]

@@Epistolary8 Yes, I would love it if Frodo would have been killed.

[@SleepParty30]

No main characters in real life, you say? Don't be a bystander. Don't be an NPC. Make a story. And make this world yours.

[@1MahaDas]

This film is dark, and shocking for the way that the antagonist becomes a survivor, yet the protagonist is just dead! But this production also reveals how bizarrely violent that the living environment can actually be! In my view, this flick is a masterpiece!

[@neil2444]

It depicts a villain if a villain were thrown into real life, and not a movie, meaning the villain can get what he wants more often than not, and the protagonist can be immoral and die. It's not satisfying in the sense that you feel justice should be served, but it's a reminder that life doesn't work to satisfy our sense of justice. The car crash in the end is symbolic of the fact that not even the villain is immune to the chaos of life.

[@a.r.h9919]

There should be more of this films with unorthodox plots and endings with character not going through a classic journey but rather having deviations into unique types

[@grife3000]

When you're living in a time where people don't instantly say "It's Woody from Cheers". It truly is no country for old men.

[@CopiousDoinksLLC]

Fun fact: the guy who missed out on the role of Woody from Cheers was Timothy Treadwell - the 'Grizzly Man' who would end up going on to get slaughtered by wild bears in Alaska.

[@ohhgeez865]

Yeah turns out people don't really watch boring sitcoms from 40 years ago very much

[@grife3000]

@@ohhgeez865 Except for "Friends."

[@theflyingfisherman7829]

Maybe cuz Woody Harrelson is way more famous for other films rather than _Cheers?_

[@yurisucupira]

This movie is basically a western, but on the New West instead of the Old West. The Old West movies portray a good guy who beats the bad guy, but the New West is different: crime has become so violent and organized that the good guy is killed way before the movie ends, the bad guy escapes, and the old police officer just can't wait to be retired, because he understands everything that is going on but he knows that he can't do anything about this.

[@VirusZ001]

One of my favourite scene in this film is when Tommy Lee Jones tells the wife about the guy who injured himself killing a cow (one of the most defenseless creatures) to where he couldn't lift his arm above his head. After Anton kills the wife (arguably the most defenseless person in the film), he gets injured by no fault of his own, where he can't lift his own arm above his head. Beautiful portray of moral chaos even to those who strictly live by moral order. My two cents 🍺

[@MiketheratguyMultimedia]

Seeing this movie at the theater was amazing. I was absolutely glued to the screen and the audience was dead silent. The epic cinematography was breathtaking, as were intense scenes like the shootout. The movie defied expectations at every turn and I left thinking "holy shit, it's been ages since I watched a movie that was unlike anything I've ever seen before". I consider it to be a legitimate all-time masterpiece of cinema.

[@thedisciple516]

Anytime Mary says something in Dutch you know she just saw something good

[@thomasgriffiths6758]

Miller's Crossing is another Coen Brothers film that is definitely worth a reaction to.

[@hulkslayer626]

Miller's Crossing? Isn't that another Cormac McCarthy novel?

[@BFlyer]

Hell or High Water, and Wind River are also excellent frontier justice movies that build tension in a similar way. Definitely worth checking out.

[@Col_Fragg]

Both are better films than "No Country For Old Men."

[@Raving]

He'll or High Water especially. I live in Texas and that movie has a definite Texas vibe.

[@AndyBodkin]

Yes! could not agree more!!!! Both of these films are beyond excellent. I particularly love Wind River, ugh the message of it at the end hits so hard.

[@iambored2094]

I had a nightmare about Anton, amazing performance! Amazing movie ! You would never know Carla Jean is Scottish unless you are familiar with the actress.

[@EgbertWilliams]

One thing that always bugged me is how easily the Woody Harrelson character gets ambushed. He's hired to deal with Chigurh because he's supposed to be an expert himself. In the book they let you know that he was a Green Beret officer who'd fought in the jungles of Vietnam. But then he goes sauntering up those steps and lets Chigurh just walk up behind him. It seems very, very sloppy. Still a great movie and I love when Mary cracks herself up.

[@robmann400]

Woody in the film is a retired army Colonel as is mention by the “kids with bones in their noses and green hair” Sheriff over coffee with Bell. Woody’s a free agent working for the CIA. He ribs the Company boss about validating his parking and a missing floor. Look into the movie Air America. The CIA’s in the drug business in 1980, when the film takes place. Woody’s character was very confident and cocky. In the hospital he let’s Moss knows Chigurh is going to Odessa. Woody doesn’t think Chigurh is still in the general area. As a movie star no one is expecting Woody to be a minor player so his quick introduction and death is more shocking. Now that I think about it, all the deaths in this movie are shocking as they are presented to us on screen.

[@egilskallagrimsson2941]

Here’s a little known fact. This movie is based something hardly anyone even seems to know still exists: A book.

[@waywardmind]

Not only is this an exceptional movie, but it's one of the best adaptations of a book ever made.

[@DevInvest]

Mary- lol If you’re not aware- “Riding Bit h” means sitting in the middle on a bench style seat usually in a single cab pickup truck like the one in the film. It’s really only for two but there’s room for a third in the middle and a lap style seatbelt aka “riding bit h” Slang

[@Thepirireis]

Garret Dillahunt played Deputy Wendell. He is such a good character actor and woefully underused.

[@EgbertWilliams]

Mary, another movie based on a Cormac McCarthy book is called "The Road." It stars Viggo Mortensen. It's a post-apocalyptic story, but not a cheesy one. It's haunting and realistic and terrifying. I think you'd love it.

[@adamesterreid6234]

The one word that always come to mind when I think of The Road is bleak

[@norwegianblue2017]

Probably the darkest movie I have ever seen.

[@PeterEvansPeteTakesPictures]

After the genuine breakdown Margaret Atwood's apocalyptic novel Oryx & Crake gave me all those years ago, I've made it my life's mission not to read The Road. Everybody else should though, I'm sure!

[@ernestortiz4555]

When Anton started choking while talking to the man in the gas station it wasn't scripted. He just kept going with the scene and it ended up brilliant.

[@shainewhite2781]

Winner of 4 Oscars including Best Picture!

[@AFKeveryday]

i love how good films resonate across countries and cultures.. thanks Mary.. i'm still watching your reactions spanning these years.. subscribed again

[@Jeff_Lichtman]

Psychologists have said that Anton Chigurh is a very accurate portrayal of a sociopath. His view of life is strange. He sees himself as carrying out fate, which relieves him of responsibility for all his murders. But, as we see at the end, even he is subject to random chance. Llewelyn Moss is smart but not wise. He knows how to solve problems that are right in front of him, but he doesn't have enough foresight to stay out of trouble. A tip: if you come across a drug deal with a bunch of dead people lying around, get the hell out of there and then call the police. One thing that makes this movie work is an absence of non-diegetic sound. That is, all the sound in the film is in the environment of the story, audible to the characters in the story. There's no soundtrack. This means there's a lot of silence, which as you noted, creates tension. Kelly Macdonald, who played Carla Jean, is Scottish and speaks with a heavy Scottish accent. Her Texas accent in this movie is impeccable. When I first saw the movie I had no idea she's not from the American south. Coen Brothers movies have memorable minor characters, like the manager at the trailer park. She had only about a minute of screen time, but she adds to the atmosphere of the film. Thanks for this reaction!

[@hughjorg4008]

Great analysis about this film. 👍 Some viewers don't get that Chigurh and Sherrif Bell didn't start a gunfight in the motel room because Chigurd was hiking in the room next door. Also, some viewers don't know that Chirgurh murdered Carla in the final scene and checked for her blood in his boots. 😬

[@thecatthinks]

"We can't give out no information." And then she kinda bows up at him a little..... Love it.

[@MessOfThings]

I know that they might have this categorized as a crime thriller but I really consider it to be a western. It's just a western set in modern times

[@Zixik_]

The Coen brothers are masters of their craft. You have to check out FARGO - another Coen brothers crime masterpiece.

[@eschiedler]

As a wrter, Cormac McCarthy is fantastic. His talents shine in the adaptation as in particular the dialogue in the movie carries the show.

[@kellymoses8566]

Blood Meridian is an amazing book.

[@Mike-wr7om]

I live in Texas. I love the wide open vistas. Sometimes I like to just drive through the countryside and take in the views. If you like wide open spaces, you should do a road trip through Texas.

[@Raving]

I live in Texas also and did the same as you except on a motorcycle.

[@unclelink]

"Call it." *exhales* "Sir?" Can't watch this without watching Drive and The Hunted.

[@D0RYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY]

i love this film. the acting and dialogue are top notch. i remember watching this with my dad in theatres when it came out. its been a favorite of ours ever since.

[@B_B-420]

"I'm so in shock. That we just lost the main character just like that." Your mistake was thinking Josh Brolin was the main character. He wasn't. Tommy Lee Jones was.

[@fumblingtitan1411]

This is one of my favourite movies Mary! the Coen brothers make great movies and if you like their movies you'll also like Marty McDonagh. His movies are crime based but also dark comedy. Watch 'In Bruges', '3 Billboards outside Ebbing Misouri' and 'Seven Psychopaths'! I really think you'd love em! Anyway, I always love ur reactions Mary! Keep well mate ;)

[@tylerfoster6267]

She has actually seen In Bruges. It is a Patreon exclusive due to the way it was recorded.

[@CloneByDesign]

In Bruges is one of the most quotable movies ever made.

[@WithWizMedia]

You need to watch Their Will Be Blood. It came out in the same year as this film, was filmed in the same town at the same time as this film AND was the primary best picture opponent of this film. The two films are inextricably tied forever. TWBB is also maybe the best film this century.

[@essdeeem3320]

TWBB is my favorite . A beautiful masterpiece 😊

[@charles7836]

She completely edited out the end of the movie, and those two dreams were integral to the plot of the film and the heart of Tommy Lee Jones's character.

[@SimoExMachina2]

Morale of the movie: 1) When in a crime scene, always look for the satchel full money 2) Never return to the scene of crime 3) Always check the satchel for a hidden transmitter 4) Move to the ass end of nowhere once you have the money

[@voidmstr]

I never noticed the occasional Macintosh quacking before.

[@theylied1776]

What he's using is called a (cattle kill shot). It's what they use to kill cattle in a slaughterhouse. It's basically a small steel cylinder connected to an air gun.

[@DevInvest]

I believe, originally, the actor playing the deputy was cast or read for the part of Moss- eventually played by Brolin. It’s hard to imagine the film with not only no Brolin as Moss, but that actor is fantastic as the young naive but enthusiastic foil to the dry witted, sage, older older Sheriff

[@ParkerAllen2]

If you want another super smart mystery-drama set in the modern West, I'd recommend Lone Star (1996), starring Chris Cooper, Kris Kristofferson and Matthew McConaughey. A really good movie with some unexpected turns. It's also about a Texas sheriff trying to solve a murder, but this one happened many years before, and the film jumps back and forth in time in a masterful way.

[@tylerfoster6267]

An underrated masterpiece.

[@floorticket]

Two million in 1980 is about $7,233,300 in today's dollars.

[@Dirkus17]

The title refers to how one's music tastes become more sophisticated and responsible as the frivolities of youth fade, hence "No Country for Old Men".

[@MessOfThings]

If you want to see Carla in another great performance, although most people have never heard of it, one of my favorite films is called The Girl in the Cafe.

[@jimboa20]

It wasn't even Chigurh that got Llewelyn. It was the faceless cartel. Offscreen. Absolutely brutal.

[@norwegianblue2017]

Did you recognize the man behind the desk in the high rise office is the same actor that played Milton in Office Space. Now that is some acting range!

[@tylerfoster6267]

It will be the other way around...whenever she watches Office Space!

[@andrewgrossman4982]

Great reaction as always, Mary! I highly recommend checking out ‘True Grit’ (2010) which is also the Coen Brothers and which I like much more than this. It has Matt Damon, Jeff Bridges, and Hailee Steinfeld.

[@tylerfoster6267]

I recommend you re-watch the intro...hehe

[@robhoskins8871]

You may have seen the actress who played Carla Jean (Llewelyn's wife) in the movie "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2" - she played Helena Ravenclaw.

[@TheMrsmartass13]

I love how this movie flips the viewers expectations, with Carson and the thought he will eventually have a gunfight with Anton, with Llewellyn and his story, and my favourite the Sherriff and Deputy, in these types of movies it's common for the Sheriff and Villain come to blows, and sometimes have the Deputy die or be wounded by the Villain to add stakes to the film, but that never happens, infact the Deputy becomes less involved in the story, it add to the realism of this story and makes the stakes that much more impactful.

[@rg3388]

Why shoot at an animal from a motor vehicle? To rhyme with similar events in "Raising Arizona" and "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou." The 69 cents echoes the same amount in "The Big Lebowski." Anton goes from "Do you see me?" to "You didn't see me" at the end.

[@robmann400]

Shot at the animal perhaps to parody the kick the dog cliche to show how irredeemable bad the bad guy is or, more likely, to show he is not an unstoppable force of evil. He misses the bird.

[@michaelflower6172]

It's called a Bolt Gun! It's used by Veterinarians to put down suffering animals, like cows and horses in the field away from their offices...

[@timothygermann780]

Should shown the ending monologue. It is is one one the iconic endings in modern film history and is integral to the meaning of the film.

[@syx3s]

in the end the main character turns out to be one of the scariest individual characters ever come up with.... and not the character you thought the main character was.

[@GetMeThere1]

One suggestion if you'd like to see the "open space" of America: Visit Las Vegas and rent a car. Then consult a map and take a drive on Route 50, from Ely Nevada to Reno Nevada. You'll see NOTHING during the 300 mile drive for as far as you can see (except mountains bigger than those in this movie), AND you can then drive off the road on any number of jeep trails, and go off the road for 50 miles or more and STILL see nothing but mountains, etc. Nevada (unlike every other state except Alaska) is nearly 80% federal land -- which is utterly empty, and in which you can drive around at your pleasure. How big is Nevada? A road trip from Las Vegas to Reno is an 8 hour drive. The county next to Clark County (which has Las Vegas) is Nye County. Nye county is over THREE TIMES as large as the entire state of Connecticut.

[@allanrose3661]

Moral to the story - don't return to the seen of the crime and always check first for a transponder. LOL

[@terryhughes7349]

you summarized it quite well. This world is changed and there is no country for old men.

[@TheNeonRabbit]

Yes, he killed Carla. When he comes out of the house he carefully checks both of his shoes for blood.

[@EgbertWilliams]

Of course he killed Carla Jean. That's why he checked his boots.

[@donkfail1]

So many life lessons! When stumbling on to a murder scene: Look for the money. Finding someone dying and suffering from thirst: Never bring them water. If you get hold of a big bag of money: Change/check the bag. If a car explodes: Look everywhere else. Unfortunately I think he killed her. I used to think maybe not, but was convinced he did when someone pointed out "If he didn't shoot her, why was he checking his boot exiting the house?" Not a happy movie.

[@erictaylor5462]

That is a captive hammer. It uses high pressure air to shoot a rod out, but the rod doesn't come all the way out, so it can be used over and over to quickly and humanly kill cows for slaughter. It kind of shows how trusting people can be. Guy gets pulled over by a person driving a cop car but is not wearing a police uniform. He has a strange device and just stands there while being murdered.

[@Drforrester31]

Experience is a great description for No Country, it will always be one of my absolute favorite movies

[@AndyBodkin]

Watch it again sometime in the neat future. You will start to notice so many more facinating aspects of this movie. Everytime I rewatch this I notice something different.

[@JRush374]

You have to visit the Grand Canyon in Arizona if you want a great view. The pictures don't do it justice. When you're standing on the edge it's mind boggling how big it is. It gives you a sense of how insignificant you are in the universe. Going in the winter is beautiful too. While you're there visit Sedona as well.

[@robmann400]

(Channeling Rodney Dangerfield)... The Grand Canyon? Are you kidding me? My wife gives me a sense of how insignificant in the universe I am every night. I don’t get no respect, no respect at all.

[@CaesiusX]

🤭 15:18 My favorite moment from you in this reaction! 🤣 Never change! ☺️

[@p-51d95]

(1) Fargo (2) True Grit. If you've already seen the Coen 2010 version you also watch the 1969 version with John Wayne. The 1969 version is a more "traditional style" western... one of the last made before the "revisionist style" western became more the standard. Same story but different style. Both movies are good in their own right.

[@tylerfoster6267]

I do not mind the John Wayne movie, but having read the Charles Portis book that both movies are adaptations of, there's no question that the Coens captured the spirit of it more accurately.

[@playerone7663]

The actor who played the creepy killer in this is also the main character in a great drama-movie called "Biutiful" (yes spelled like that) ...im sure you would appreciate that one.

[@hughjorg4008]

"the actor who played the creepy killer" is called is Oscar-winner JAVIER BARDEM.

[@StevesFunhouse]

Mary, I always love your reactions ... your insights are great, especially because they are coming from a completely different perspective. This was truly a fun and enjoyable watch.

[@luvlgs1]

you should check out Raising Arizona and Miller's Crossing. early Coen brothers, completely different genres, both excellent. keep on rockin

[@TheNeonRabbit]

Both excellent

[@MessOfThings]

That might be the most internet thing I've ever seen. Looking at Anton Chigurh at the peak of his performance... "Some people need to get hobbies"

[@bgt54rfvcde32wsxzaq1]

This movie is like a Rorschach Test. People see what they want in it and not necessarily what actually happened.

[@TheSkootenbeeten]

When I first watched this movie, I was loving it... then I felt angry with it. I felt betrayed for how it let me follow Moss along his journey. Admire Moss. Root for Moss. How do they climax the character? Shot dead without showing it. I barely registered that it was him in the pool on my first watch. I was so confused. If I was made to give one complaint about this movie; it would be that it doesn't clearly show who the main character is (though both the title and narration clearly give it away on second viewing) If I was made to give one praise to this movie; it would be that it doesn't clearly show who the main character is. (though both the title and narration clearly give it away on second viewing)

[@jm-zf2gy]

yeah, that "woah differences" part got me chucklin' too

[@reactionisst]

Whiplash, American Psycho, and now No Country, Mary is really catching up on all her psychopath/serial killer movies all at once!

[@JackDespero]

I saw an article about psychologist analyzing which depiction of psychopathy is the most accurate in films, and Banderas' character is the most accurate.

[@GetMeThere1]

I'm sure someone else will say, but, since it's only "implied" in the film (in a discussion between Sheriff Ed and Carla Jean), the device he carries around is a "bolt gun." This is most often used to "stun" animals for slaughter (or sometimes euthanasia, in a farm/ranch environment). The "bolt" comes out of the device for about three inches, and goes into the brain, and then is instantly withdrawn (for use on the next animal).

[@gk5891]

One of my favorite movies. I like movies that assume the audience has a brain and doesn't need to be led by the hand.

[@auntvesuvi3872]

Thank you, Mary! 🏜 #MoviesWithMary #EthanCoen #JoelCoen #CoenBrothers #NoCountryForOldMen

[@DevInvest]

All the cowboy hats in this are 🔥 My favorite is Wells’

[@cineeggs630]

Best soundtrack ever.

[@Canhistoryismylife]

I see what you did there

[@synystera]

@@Canhistoryismylife I hear what you did there

[@PaulWinkle]

Some guy sold the CD to me for a good price, still not listened, is there sth wrong with it?

[@cineeggs630]

@@PaulWinkle It's a little bit quietly. You have to turn it up.

[@RetroClassic66]

This IS a Western, Mary, but it’s more of a neo-Western or modern Western, since it takes place in the American Southwest in 1980. It’s also a neo-noir film. They did an excellent job recreating 1980 Texas. This is one of the Coen Brothers’ best films.

[@erictaylor5462]

19:30 His mind wonders, it just goes to interesting places when it goes walkabout.

[@ericanderson8886]

Brilliant movie, won the best picture Oscar. Javiar Bardem one of the best villians ever.

[@jhilal2385]

If you like crime thrillers like this, then you might also like: "The Lady Killers" (2004 remake) Tom Hanks, also by the Coen brothers "Hell or High Water" (2016) Chris Pine, Jeff Bridges "A Perfect World" (1993) Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, Laura Dern "Absolute Power" (1997) Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris "Blood Work" (2002) Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels "Sneakers" (1992) Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Dan Ackroyd, Ben Kingsley, Mary macDonnell "Payback (1999) Mel Gibson, Lucy Liu, William Devane, kris Kristopherson "The Accountant" (2016) Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick "Out of Sight" (1997) George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1999 remake) Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo "The Italian Job" (2003 remake) Mark Wahlberg, Donald Sutherland, Charlize Theron, Jason Statham, Seth Green, Ed Norton, Mos Def "The Bank Job" (2008) Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows "Entrapment" (1999) Sean Connery, Catherine Zeta Jones, Ving Rhames, Will Patton "The Whole 9 Yards" (2000) Bruce Willis, Natasha Henstridge "Parker" (2013) Jason Statham, Jennifer Lopez, Michael Chiklis, Nick Nolte "Lock, Stock, and 2 Smoking Barrels" (1998) "Snatch" (2000) "Bandits" (2001) Bruce Willis, Billy bob thornton, Cate Blanchette a little bit on the spy side of crime thriller genre: "Day of the Jackal" (1973 original) Edward Fox, Michel Lonsdale "The Jackal" (1997 remake) Bruce Willis, Diane Venora, Sidney Poitier, Richard Gere "Three Days of the Condor" (1975) Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Max Von Sydow "Survivor" (2015) Milla jovovich, Pierce Brosnan "The November Man" (2014) Pierce Brosnan, Will Patton "Ronin" (1998) Robert DeNiro, Jean Reno, Sean Bean, Michel Lonsdale "R.E.D." (2010) Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Morgan Freeman, Sarah Jessica Parker, Helen Mirren, Karl Urban, Brian Cox

[@TheNeonRabbit]

In "Batman Forever" Tommy Lee Jones plays an insane character who uses a coin toss to decide whether to murder people.

[@NeutronDance]

Glad you got to this one Mary

[@kyleshockley1573]

There's a line in the book that lets you know that Carson Wells got what was coming to him. And it should have been worse. Even if something like 90% of the book is translated to the film, there's some additional material that lets you know how ruthless Anton is. Also a little extra to let you know how good Bell is.

[@michaelswain845]

The actor who played Llewellyn Moss is the same actor who played Thanos.

[@nirfz]

When i watched this movie long ago, while it's realistic to have such a "no end" in real life, it felt one of the most unsatisfying movie ends to me.

[@DevInvest]

You would L O V E his books. Cormac McCarthy is the author . “All The Pretty Horses” & “Blood Meridian “ to start AFTER- lol No Country- You’ll love them.

[@Homeless-Samurai87]

Ha..."if only he hadn't gone back for the friginn agua!".... but Also, he maybe went back to try and save a life he regretfully left behind! Reactions are so emotive and funny responses!

[@flerbus]

if he hadn't gone back he wouldn't have known he was in danger. He would have been tracked and ambushed at home probably

[@Hexon66]

@@flerbus I take the point, but he most certainly knew he was always going to be in danger of some sort. More exactly though was his conscience doomed him, and he'd have to realize that.

[@mattkandel2449]

You should check out "Wind River" for another crime/thriller/modern westernish movie! Good stuff!

[@erictaylor5462]

This is a modern Western. That is, if follows the formula of a western movie, but it takes place in modern times rather than the 19th Century.

[@kitkompo]

this was a Slice Of Life movie, and that kind of makes this movie unsatisfying, but the there are no loose ends tie up. i wanted more from this movie, but this movie gave so much.

[@Huntress59]

Have you seen Fargo? It’s another coen Film that must be watched. It’s brilliant .

[@Xervello]

Note to self, don't get injured around Mary. You're on your own, lol.

[@CitizenScorn]

Great reaction to a great piece of art 🙏

[@justsmashing4628]

Please watch Snatch 😊

[@leeannmcdermott8313]

Luv it!

[@ralphtijtgat3233]

Yeah good idea.

[@justsmashing4628]

@@leeannmcdermott8313 such a fun movie 😁

[@justsmashing4628]

@@ralphtijtgat3233 I think she’d like it 😊

[@sebswede9005]

No Country for Old Men is a modern western. Change my mind.

[@slchance8839]

"Next time a car explodes, i'll be looking away and around." Umm....maybe you dont want to look around and SEE Anton Sigur. "Are you going to kill me?" "That depends. Do you see me?"

[@chrisandrew6633]

If you haven't seen There Will Be Blood, it & this are like brothers in my mind. They both came out in 2007, they're both 10/10, they're both intense.

[@Samaelthekind]

The American Southwest's deserts are beautiful in the extreme. Although this movie has its share of violence, its clean shots of the desert landscapes are a treasure. Nevada, Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico are American states with incredible parks where the desert landscapes can be safely viewed and even partially toured in just a few days...or, if you are short on time, key points can be seen in just a few hours. Including, but not limited to, unique rock forms and geological anomalies, Native American pictographs carved or drawn upon rock faces, ancient dwellings of first peoples of the region, and plant life that is rarely found anywhere else in the world. I only toured the deserts a few times, but some of the things I saw are even more beautiful than any movie could do justice. I whole heartedly recommend touring someday.

[@burtrangle3546]

It's always nice to see an upload from you, Mary. I'm in south Mississippi. You are an incredible person. Some films that I would love to see you react to are; Sante Sangria, Aguirre the Wrath of God, Curse of the Demon, Stranger than Paradise, Freeway, To Die For, Inherent Vice, Extro, , the Witch, Black Narcissus, and Dead Man. I have 14 spoiled cats and 2 silly girl dogs here so, packed house for you.

[@txspeck]

christ......

[@t0dd000]

Second favorite film after Casablanca. Like all Cormac McCarthy stories, it's so cerebral, brutal, and honest. So good.

[@ademozkum2716]

This movie is brilliant. The lack of sound adds so much to the tension. If you're looking for westerns, "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" is a classic and a must watch. Another favorite of mine is "Unforgiven," starring Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, and Gene Hackman.