No Country for Old Men (2007) | MOVIE REACTION

We react to this famous crime thriller made by the Coen Brothers which is based on a book with some excellent performances.
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[@slikmik7779]

The moral of the story is that there are no " clean getaways ". The soundtrack was the west Texas wind.

[@pigpiggypigbigpig681]

"We haven't seen this since we were kids." Lord I feel old.

[@kevinhenderson5928]

Yeah. That had me wondering about their parents. No way I would have taken my kids to this. Chigurh rattled a few adults I know.

[@pigpiggypigbigpig681]

@@kevinhenderson5928 Hehe. I’m in their boat. I watched The Wall when I was 5 and stayed up watching Freddy and Jason when I was 10. Way too young, but, what can you do?

[@SidPhoenix2211]

VERY glad that y'all are doing this movie! PS: Javier is pronounced as HA-vi-er. In Spanish, a "J" is basically an "H" sound.

[@vincentd.9171]

Hahv-ee-air

[@ClaytonMacleod]

At the beginning, when he is hunting and takes a shot at the animal it was not a good hit. He hit the rear of the animal, and hunters want to hit vital organs, the heart or lungs, so that the animal dies as quickly and humanely as possible. That’s why he says “Shit.” He is disappointed at the bad shot because, one, the animal won’t die as quickly and painlessly as possible, and two, now he’s got to try and track it so he can finish the job and put it out of its misery.

[@johnnyjohnny8636]

I think this movie is about the cold indifference of the universe. The coin flip - indifferent. Even the movie treats it's main character with indifference, killing him off-screen without sentiment. The personification of this indifference is Anton, but even he succumbs to it when he's smashed up by the car. No masters or servants - just emptiness. The end monologue is about trying to survive in the void. All we can ever do is huddle together around the light we create for a short while.

[@pigpiggypigbigpig681]

Yeah I think that sums it up nicely. Enjoy it while you still have it, because it’s short and will soon be gone forever.

[@Hexon66]

@@pigpiggypigbigpig681 Not sure about the enjoy part, but mostly yeah. More like the joke Woody Allen used in Annie Hall, "The food here is terrible." "Yeah, and such small portions."

[@justinsherman9350]

The ending is a certain kind of karmic justice being inflicted on Anton. The question he asks Carson is most informative of his character, that being "If the rule you follow brought you to this, of what use was the rule?" Anton is a creature of meticulous order with absolute faith in the rules by which he lives his life. Lou-Ellen's wife has the bravest response to this of any character, not trying to argue or bargain, simply informing him that this 'rule' of his is nonsense. He might not have taken this lesson to heart as he drives away from her murder, but the point is emphasized quite resoundingly by the car smashing into him out of nowhere, breaking and near killing him in spite of all rules. If the rules he followed lead him to that, of what use were they?

[@fahkinel]

Llewelyn******* lmao that's the first time I've seen someone butcher that name like that hahaha, I could see how you got there though

[@brettharlow7010]

Great reaction to a great film.

[@TTM9691]

oh my gosh, if you're doing Coen Brothers movies, DEFINITELY do "Fargo", definitely do "Raising Arizona" and definitely do "Blood Simple". "Burn After Reading" is good too. Frances McDormand is in all four.

[@Yrbytuuba]

Thanks for the video, you two are great!

[@TheNeonRabbit]

In "Batman Forever" (1995) Tommy Lee Jones plays Harvey "Two-face" Dent, a psychopath who makes decisions about killing people by flipping a coin.

[@robmann400]

Oh yeah, the windmills at the start of this film... Cervantes or what?

[@___Guilherme___]

Javier got the Oscar for best actor and this girl got the oscar for best reaction while Chigurh is on scene. Just love the way she is trying to protect her face using her hands.

[@GroovingPict]

It's easy to think that going back to give the guy water was what got them on the scent of Moss in the first place. But in reality, him going there and being spotted actually made him able to survive as long as he did. If he hadnt, he would have thought he was home free and that nobody could find out it was him who took the money, when in reality there's a tracker in the money and Anton wouldve gone driving around nearby trailerparks and whatnot until he got a signal on the thing, and shot Moss and his wife probably literally in their sleep.

[@franciscoacevedo8153]

GRACIAS AMIGOS X EL VIDEO..ES UNA MARAVILLA ESA PELICULA...UN GUION EXELENTE CON UN GRAN REPARTO. SALUDOS DESDE ARGENTINA..

[@staxuk]

First! I love this movie

[@robmann400]

This movie is about sailing. See Yeats’ Sailing To Byzantium. Read an analysis or five. Then, The Aeneid. So... The Vietnam War. The next war? The War On Drugs... and the CIA’s involvement in running parts of the drug trade (movie, Con Air). Woody’s dad in real life was a Texas Federal Judge murdering hitman (1979), Sheriff Bell in the movie may refer to this real life incident. The missing office tower floor in the movie - CIA operations. Determinism vs Free Will. Existentialism. Nihilism. Kierkegaard’s Either/Or... this movie is about sailing.

[@Hexon66]

There's very much a Sam Peckinpah feel to this film, particularly The Getaway. Slightly different story, but the same atmosphere, same region of the country, roughly the same time (a bit earlier), and a money chase.

[@bgt54rfvcde32wsxzaq1]

Gotta watch "Fargo" next 👍

[@patrickholt2270]

Anton has reasons for killing everyone he kills. It's to remove a rival for the money, or to remove a witness who has seen him, or a direct threat from the cops or gangsters. Tommy Lee Jones old sherriff isn't a direct threat to him, and hasn't seen him. It would be a waste of effort, and a small risk to attack the sherriff. If he can avoid being seen, he can just leave, and he moves in way that doesn't attract attention, at a natural walking speed or a safe, legal driving speed. He also likes killing, which is why he's invented this existentialist, nihilist story about everything he does being just chance and therefore sometimes giving people a coin flip to survive or not, if they have seen him but are no threat. He denies that he kills because he wants to because that conflicts with his image of himself as supremely rational and not distracted by emotions. He's probably read Ayn Rand, which told him his psychopathic lack of empathy and normal human emotions was cool and rational and superior. But in the end he isn't rational, because all this time he's been double crossing his employers to take the money from them because he's greedy. It would be much more rational to not cross them, get paid handsomely as usual, and keep his network. Now he's on his own with no allies and he's in a random driving collision because he shot the people who would have helped him disappear.

[@kevinhenderson5928]

Interesting analysis. There were a few outliers. He willfully shot a bird because he felt like it. He would have shot that apartment manager, but that flushing sound in the background saved her. He did kill the hotel clerk in the lobby, but I assume it was so that Lewellyn wouldn't be tipped off. And, of course, there is the poor truck driver who was innocently pulled into Lewellyn's escape. What I liked about the random driving collision is that he clearly had the green light.

[@patrickholt2270]

@@kevinhenderson5928 That's what comes of a lack of roundabouts. ;-D

[@Ian-hg8gx]

love your reactions, have you seen any australian movies, i suggest starting with the year my voice broke from 1987

[@SlickAstley_TV]

Hey peoples, gun nerd here. As brilliant as this movie is it, unfortunately, falls into the Hollywood trap of just messing gun shit up for no real reason. For example, what you thought was an MP5 was actually supposed to be an MP5 (it was an MP5K in the novel) but what they used was an SP89 which, as hinted in its name, was made nearly a decade after 1980, the year the movie takes place. Why did they use the gun that looks like an MP5 instead of an MP5? Who knows. Surely the prop department had some MP5s lying around, they are wildly popular. So popular, in fact, that when H&K released the UMP (the lighter, cheaper successor to the MP5) security forces looked at it and went "Wow! This is great! Now give us more MP5s, please!" edit: What you thought was buckshot should have been buckshot but wasn't for plot convenience (can't advance the movie if Llewelyn's shoulder gets turned into a leaky bag of spaghetti and he gets eaten by a dog) what he did get shot by was either birdshot or, more bafflingly, target load. These contain very tiny bbs that, while deadly to birds and small game, will just pepper a man up real nice *DJ Khaled voice "and another one": Silenced shotguns do exist, though they would have been non-existent or exceedingly rare in 1980. Also, they aren't silent and defiantly don't make the (admittedly badass) sound they do in the movie. Silencers (also called suppressors because they do not, in fact, silence anything) are still usually quite loud. A suppressed 12 gauge would still make your ears ring if you fired it indoors

[@sean-ew2qv]

lol. who the hell cares. this is a fictional movie. Gun fetishizing is disgusting and being a "gun nerd" is creepy AF.

[@SlickAstley_TV]

@@sean-ew2qv it's funny how you say lol but you are obviously seething. Who's fetishizing? Since when does fiction mean total disregard for reality? Who's really being creepy here? Who hurt you? lol

[@citymorgue8462]

@@sean-ew2qv I guess exercising you rights is creepy huh, 😂 stay mad fascist

[@Hexon66]

@@citymorgue8462 There's a difference between exercising rights and being unhealthily obsessed with guns, a cowardly weapon if ever there was one. Nobody, repeat nobody, has ever tried to come and get your guns (except if you're a person of color). It's just a paranoid delusion protecting fragile white masculinity.

[@longfootbuddy]

dont give people water and do stuff

[@kxd2591]

If any movie, ever, called for a sequel . . . .

[@methodhardie9193]

I would never want one, the movie is perfect as it is, a sequel would only dismiss the open-endedness of the movie and undermine the whole message.

[@kxd2591]

@@methodhardie9193 You make an interesting point. Ok, so hows'bout a prequel. That character is so deliciously twisted that I'd sure like to see his back story.

[@methodhardie9193]

@@kxd2591 again, to be honest I don't think Chigurr needs any back story, part of the horror of the character is the mystery surrounding him, not fully understanding his past, or why he does what he does, allows people to theorise. I like to think he, like Moss, was in Vietnam and perhaps something happened there that caused him to lose himself.

[@kxd2591]

@@methodhardie9193 Ok, each to his own, lol.

[@mndayman]

a sequel to this movie would just be tommy lee jones retired

[@DenCon143]

Young man, you know that you don't need to speak EVERY thought that pops into your head. Maybe take a lesson from the young lady next to you.

[@user-yc6vm5uj9y]

Young man is crazy ngl

[@MsDboyy]

Eh

[@seanosborn3272]

Anton chiguhr represents fate. An unstoppable force that you cannot escape. Also the flipping of the coin presents this.