No Country for Old Men Fargo

While No Country for Old Men, the film, remains faithful to the 2005 novel, the film also shows glimpses of themes that the Coen brothers had explored in their earlier movies. The novels themes that consist of chance and a plethora of hit men are familiar territory for the Coen brothers. As seen in Fargo where hit men are hired to capture Jerry’s wife. Critics acknowledged the presence of chance to both the novel and the film. The lives of the three major characters, Bell, Moss, and Chigurh, are the result of chance, which then seals their fate. McCarthy’s Chigurh believes in a rationality that is clearly all his own, shown by his coin flips. In his mind, he must kill anyone who gets in the way of his plan. All in all the Coen brothers kept the script faithful to the book, only trimming the story where necessary and adding visual and audial effects to bring McCarthy’s story to life.