Tuesday, May 13, 2014
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.
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