Using the genre of a neo-western, the Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men encapsulates, through its three main characters, the feeling of emptiness and hammers home the point its title so curtly dictates.
Exemplifying the wonder for purpose and meaning of man’s existence, the picture instead makes its viewers wallow in their own dread, showing that the world is going too fast for them to keep up no matter how hard they try.
In the bleakness of its storytelling and its utter lack of a score, Joel and Ethan Coen blast the audience with this painful truth – life is no more than a frustrating endeavor which leaves these characters no choice but to traverse its meaninglessness.
No Country for Old Men’s characters force the viewers to revel in the mere absurdity of both the film and their everyday lives.
This story leaves a void inside their hearts and minds
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