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Article: COOL DRY PLACE Abattoir blues: Lifting souls from the slaughterhouse
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- Columbia Daily Tribune
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- August 9, 2007
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What is art if not the affirmation of life from the darkest,
direst of circumstances?
Maybe you believe it speaks to our morbidity that two of the most
hotly anticipated films of the year are in essence tales borne from
dens of death. But from such stark surroundings often springs
salvation.
In November, the Coen brothers' "No Country for Old Men" will
receive its wide release, bringing to screens everywhere Cormac
McCarthy's chilling meditation on violence in the American West. The
buzz is deafening, of course, because of the Coens' involvement, but
it also reportedly owes much to the performance of Javier Bardem, who
is being hailed effusively for creating in Anton Chigurh the most
wicked ...