Monday 28 January 2008

No country for Old Men

A wonderful movie underlining many of the things that America still grapples with today - voilence, short term values, and a dinishing sense of respectability and accountability for actions. Rolling Stone has it just right: Good and evil are tackled with a rigorous fix on the complexity involved. Recent movies about Iraq have pushed hard to show the growing dehumanization infecting our world. No Country doesn't have to preach or wave a flag — it carries in its bones the virus of what we've become. The Coens squeeze us without mercy in a vise of tension and suspense, but only to force us to look into an abyss of our own making. This is a film not to miss.

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