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Article: No Country for Old Men.(Movie review)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- January 15, 2008
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No Country for Old Men. Directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Starring Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin and Tommy Lee Jones.
Joel and Ethan Coen accomplish what Cormac McCarthy set out to do in his bombastic 2005 novel No Country for Old Men. The movie by the same name is a portrait of the moral void of post-Vietnam America (it's set in 1980). The title, which implies a nostalgia for vanished old-world values, is taken from Yeats's poem "Sailing to Byzantium."
That void is embodied in a psychopathic contract killer named Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), who treks across Texas with the relentlessness of an unstoppable automaton from a sci-fi thriller. He's chasing ...