Review of No Country for Old Men (2007) by Gavin M — 16 Dec 2014

Alright then. Two of 'em. Both had my father in 'em . It's peculiar. I'm older now then he ever was by twenty years. So in a sense he's the younger man. Anyway, first one I don't remember too well but it was about meeting him in town somewhere, he's gonna give me some money. I think I lost it. The second one, it was like we was both back in older times and I was on horseback goin' through the mountains of a night. Goin' through this pass in the mountains. It was cold and there was snow on the ground and he rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' by. He just rode on past... and he had his blanket wrapped around him and his head down and when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn the way people used to do and I could see the horn from the light inside of it. 'Bout the color of the moon. And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and he was fixin' to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold, and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up...

Holy shit! I got it. I finally got it. At least I think I do. I think I finally figured out Tommy Lee Jones's dream at the end of the movie with his father. Remember before when he goes up to see his brother with all the cats and he talks to him about how he always figured that when he got older that God would come into his life some how, but he didn't. Well, after doing some heavy thinking after I watched the movie two nights ago I think the dream means that God did come into his life in those two dreams that Jones talks to his wife about at the end of the movie at the kitchen table after he retires from being sheriff of his Texas town. Just by the way he tells her that his father is the young man and Tommy Lee is older than his father ever was and that it was cold on there was snow on the ground it almost feels like they are both heading into hell, but once TLJ talks about his father going on a head of him and he has a blanket wrapped around him and he was carrying fire in some sort of thing that they carried fire with back in the old days and he could tell by the light in it and that's what captured my attention right away, the light that he saw in the fire and that he knew when his father went on a head in the dream on the horses that they are both riding that he knew when ever he would catch up to his father he would be there....and then he woke up. I really believe and who knows I could be wrong, but I truly believe the dream means that his father will be waiting for him in heaven when he dies and that to me is enough to put the dream to rest. This is such a masterful film by the Coen Brothers and most definitely their best since Fargo, which definitely granted both Joel and Ethan Coen every Oscar they won that year when No Country for Old Men was released into theaters. But lets not for get the true star of this movie and that is Javier Bardem as the psycho killer Anton Chigurh who is the scene stealer in this movie and most definitely deserved the best supporting actor Oscar that year he won for he truly was the most creepiest, scariest and deadliest villains to come along in a long time. His character will definitely go down as one of the best characters ever created, but it's all thanks to the genius behind it all and that is the author Cormac McCarthy, who really without him there would be no book and there would definitely be no movie and that we have to acknowledge. Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin also give very good performances as well and it was even nice to see Woody Harrelson make a small appearance as the other bounty hunter assigned to stop Javier Bardem's character. This is a very compelling and in some way suspenseful movie that should not be missed as the Coen Brothers have given us something for a generation of movie goers to watch forever and that is why the Coen Brothers are without a doubt the best film makers alive in the movie business today. They have given us so many great movies over the years that to not acknowledge them would be a sin as they gave us movies like Fargo, Raising Arizona, O Brother Where Art Thou, Burn After Reading, and the remake of True Grit. But we also cannot forget their all time cult classic The Big Lebowski, which made Jeff Bridges in my eyes a superstar even though the movie was not well recieved when it first came out, but now, now it is probably the biggest cult classic of all time and that is because the movie just is that damn good and so are The Coen Brothers.