Spoilers wanted . . . "No Country for Old Men" . . .

Bullwinkle925

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Mon Nov-26-07 08:41 PM
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Spoilers wanted . . . "No Country for Old Men" . . .

Haven't read McCarthy's book - went to see the film today. What, exactly, was up with the ending?? I loved the film, but was a bit perplexed at the end.

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JTG of the PRB

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Mon Nov-26-07 08:50 PM
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1. I wish I had some for you, but I haven't read the book yet either.

I kind of felt like there could have been more at the end of the movie, but then it just ended. Don't get me wrong, I thought it was a brilliant movie. I just felt like there was supposed to be more. It was very interesting.

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Bullwinkle925

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Mon Nov-26-07 08:51 PM
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2. did you feel like - "duh, what"??

i did.

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Beaverhausen

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Mon Nov-26-07 08:52 PM
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3. I heard the ending is faithful to the book

We are all perplexed by the ending.

I predict this will win Best Picture in every award show there is.

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Bullwinkle925

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Mon Nov-26-07 08:56 PM
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4. Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin were brilliant in their roles -

as well as Javier Bardem. Very good work.

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Skittles

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Mon Nov-26-07 09:16 PM
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5. I think

everyone in the movie looking for the bad man's motive and there simply isn't one - he's just evil. No tidy ending.

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Lautremont

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Mon Nov-26-07 09:26 PM
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6. The problem is that most people think it's about Bardem and/or Brolin.

It's about Jones, and about the country that's become unfit for old men, or for anyone outside of brutal psychopaths with bad haircuts. It's really a great, and emotionally satisfying, ending. I think so, anyway.

I think a lot of people wanted, and felt they were owed, the usual Hollywood cat-and-mouse shootout.

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Bullwinkle925

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Mon Nov-26-07 09:30 PM
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7. I thought it centered around Jones' character . . .

especially with the dialogue between the 2 lawmen about the way the *kids nowadays* are behaving, "Bones in the noses, green hair" "It all starts when they stop saying "Sir and Ma'am".

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Orrex

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Mon Nov-26-07 10:13 PM
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8. That's it exactly IMO

I haven't yet seen the film, but the book starts and ends with Bell's reflections upon the changes in his world.

Everything that happens between the Forward and the Afterward is the backdrop by which his reflections are illustrated.

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