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No Country for Old Men, It's not "Fargo"


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Mon Nov 17 2008, 09:58PM

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So, in the past I have liked most Coen Brothers movies. They are quirky, unique, and normally a little off center; so they are not quite slice of life, but they make you feel like you have stepped into someone's life and you are being gently coaxed to follow them along.

So I saw the critic reviews of "No Country for Old Men." They were raving and bragging how wonderful the movie was. The non-critic reviews were not as raving; but when it showed up at the local art theater my girlfriend and I took a chance.

Sometimes people try to hard. This is one of those cases. If you are a big fan of "Fargo" or "O' Brother Where Art Thou" you will probably not like this movie. It is a strange situation where all of the actors are wonderful and believable in their rolls. The lighting is subtle, so It looks like everyone is in a real world setting.

The story... well... the story just did not translate well on film. It is hard to take a narrative and turn it into a movie, when it is not filmed as a narrative. The whole thing just ended up coming off disjointed and incomplete. It felt like I was watching the first cut of a movie that was waiting to go through three or four more edits; But, at the same time it had a feeling there were four or five scenes that still needed to be filmed, missing from the film. Unfortunately, it felt like this missing scenes where the ones necessary to tie the whole movie together.

If I were a film student who wanted to dissect a scene or a camera technique, this would be a great film to watch. But it was not an entertaining movie. I think this film will end up being popular for people in the film industry; But, for those of us who are not, it just has a feeling of self-indulgence for the who created the movie; but overall it just falls flat for the person who lays down their money to be entertained.

Kenn Wislander
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