No Country For Old Men
When people ask me about this movie, I’m going to tell them it was amazing. I won’t be lying, but then I’m going to point to something shiny or maybe yell “fire!” and run away before they press me for more information. I need smarter people to explain to me why it was awesome so I can steal their intelligent remarks before I’d feel comfortable trying to explain it to anyone else. I can give it some really bland praise: it’s perfectly shot, perfectly delivered, we’re shown, not told, the dialog is great, etc., but it will take a few days, and maybe a few more showings, for the messages and themes to really sink in. I’m clinging to bits I understood while puzzling through the rest. I highly recommend it, but please don’t ask me “What’s it about?”
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