No Country For Old Men and Fargo

After viewing both Coen brother's films, No Country For Old Men and Fargo, I was able to detect many similarities between the two. Both films took place in a rural setting, No Country For Old Men in the desserts of Texas and Fargo in the plaines of Minneapolis. Right from the beginning, the similar settings make it easier to draw connections between the films. On a deeper level, a recurring theme the Coen brothers have conveyed in their works is morality. The good and the evil are clearly distinguishable, and so is the fate of those characters. In No Country For Old Men, one bad choice is made by Llewelyn Moss in taking two million dollars in drug money, and from then on he is trying to flee his enemies whose intent is to murder. Similarly, Lundegaard is just trying to pay off a loan, when he chooses an immoral route of hiring kidnappers, him and those involved are bound for punishment. Jerry gets involved in even deeper problems like threats from the kidnappers. The Coen brothers do not let people who have done wrong get away with it.