"No Country for Old Men"

On Saturday, me along with a friend of mine went to watch this critically acclaimed and Oscar winning movie, finally. For those who don't know I am a movie buff. I am writing about it because was a great experience.

This is how my evening goes. I was utterly bored with nothing to do, which is not unusual these days to me. To make my evening my friend wanted to shop, so we went to "Wal-Mart, The Super Center". As usual when we go out we need to grab a bite, hungry or not. So there we were sitting in Mac Donald's eating fries, and we decided to catch a movie. My friend had heard about this theater which showed movies for real low price(no this is not the dollar theater). We reached there for the 7:45 show to watch "No Country for Old Men". The tickets were half the price. That itself had me excited. (You see I am still a student in the US and not earning!!!)

The movie was two hours long. But it did not get boring. Javier Bardem, I think has done a great job as a psycho killer. Many things in the movie impressed me. For one, I was surprised the way he kills (very strange). There is this one scene in which Tommy Lee Jones is talking to the character played by Barry Corbin in which he expresses his inability to stop the bad things that are happening around him and he not being in control of them ('cause he is the town's sheriff) to which Barry Corbin says that it has been happening for decades that people disregard their own fellow men and that he or no other person could do anything about it. This impressed me a lot for two reasons. Metaphorically speaking, this happens to every one. How much ever you want things to be under your control it does not, but still we do not stop and continue trying to gain control. The other reason being what the character of Barry Corbin said of getting hold of oneself, accepting that it has been happening and will continue to happen and that it is not in our control. The dialog has a sarcastic tone to it, which impresses me even more.

All in all a well made movie. Next in my list to watch is "Sweeney Todd". It has my favorite actor so looking forward to watching it.