"What you try is not new. This country is hard on people. You can not stop what's coming. It all depends on you. It's simple vanity."
The Coens bring attention to the plight of 'common man and its role in the story today. Life, and especially its continuation is not determined by fate but by chance: everyone is master of himself only until she finds the same time point in which converge a series of events and dynamics in the face of which the individual has no power of decision. At that point the will of the individual does not count, do not count his rights nor his dignity, and the life of a person depends on the randomness (the toss of a coin in the film). The cynicism of contemporary life, which unfolds in the life of every day in the processes to which the common man does not take part if not passively (political decisions, economic, and other wars), is personified by the ruthless Anton Chigurh in the film starring a Javier Bardem superlative. The killer was almost impossible to pronounce the name as a weapon a compressed air gun used to kill animals in slaughterhouses, people are put on same level as the cannon fodder, and therefore considered expendable for the most important interests.
"No Country for Old Men" is a film with strong symbolic content (like the "25th Hour") and return there after a few steps away vacuum, two great filmmakers like the Coen brothers. ***½/
Trailer 4 by Phil in the right column
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