Just watched No country for old men....OMG! Anton Chigurh is a scary man

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I fancied this film for a while and recorded it off Sky Anytime. I started watching it at 12 midnight and thought that i'd watch the first hour and then go to bed as i was up for work at 6.30am.

I watched the first 10 mins and was absolutely gobsmacked how much of a psycho that Anton Chigurh is. I then watched the whole film through. I eventually got about 4hrs sleep! :yawn: (2hr film and half an hour lying in bed thinking about it )

I have to say that Javier Bardem thoroughly deserved his Oscar and for the first time in years a film character actually scared me (just a little lol)

The compressed air death near the beginning was shockingly unexpected and the poor bugger had no idea what was coming! and how tense is the scene with the gas station owner and how close he came!


I have to say this is now up on my favourite films list.

The only thing that i was not sure of is what happened with anton and Tommy Lee Jones at the end. Why did Anton not kill him? was he actually there? What was the relevance of the dreams at the end?


What did everyone else think of the film?
 
I'm struggling to remember the end, as I've not seen it since I went to the flicks last February to see it. However, I remember the people who I went to see it with being like "Well, why didn't he die in the end?". But that was the beauty of it. We just got this snap-shot; this one event. And then like a tornado, Anton is gone, everybody moves on, and unfortunatly, life isn't tied up in neat little packages.

Brillant film, throughly deserving of it's Oscar, but the Coen's really should have won it for Fargo years ago.
 
Brilliant film. Does anyone know why he shot the bridge? Did he aim for the bird and miss (he seemed a reasonable shot) that confused me a bit, but i really 'enjoyed' it, in a disturbing kind of way!
 
It's open for interpretation of course but I don't think Anton was there, it was maybe Tommy Lee's paranoia. He was aware that Anton had already been there because the door lock was blown through, and as he enters we see Anton's face in the shadows - but how could he have been there? After all, TLJ checked the whole apartment. I'm guessing it was just his paranoia that he could have still been lurking in there.
 
If he was there then he would have killed him.

Some thoughts -
what happened to the other driver in the car smash ?
why he waited so long to kill the wife ? (if he did kill her that is)
who were the 2 men in suits who got Anton involved and why did he kill them ?
 
if gay director Joel Schumacher had made "The Terminator", Anton Chigurgh is what the character of the Terminator would have looked like
 
Probably died in the crash.



Course he killed her. That's the whole point of the shot of him checking his shoes when he left... he always made sure there was never any blood on his shoes (the Woody Harlseon death scene for example)



This isn't really a puzzle, it's quite straight forward. Anton was a "killer for hire", and the men were working for the same agency as Woody Harleson. The two men had been sent to meet him at the scene of the robbery and give him information and instructions on what to do next. He weighed up the options in his mind and decided he would go solo and take the money for himself, instead of getting it back for the company and taking a cut. which is why he killed the two guys and the reason why the company sent Woody after him.
 
people will like what they like,i enjoyed many scenes and yes Chigurh is amazing,but sometimes i drifted out as i just found it boring

i dont have concentration issues or anything like that but at times the film didnt grab me,wether it won an oscar or if mark kermode loves it means nothing to me....i like what i like
 
The problem many people have is they think it is a straight chase movie: a chancer takes the money, psycho chases the chancer, and the sheriff chases the killer. In a formulaic chase version there is a cathartic shoot-out in the final reel: bad guy gets what's coming, the chancer suffers for his lapse, and the sheriff consoles the tearful cute wife. All neatly closed out and re-assuring. If you dislike 'No Country..' then avoid the next film-of-the-Cormac McCarthy-book 'The Road' like the plague. :DThe two main characters are called Anton and Ed Tom. You never see them in the same place.:rolleyes:

The second dream is where the sheriff foresees his future beyond this life. It uses the same iconic American frontiersman imagery as the film with an equally bleak tone.
 
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