The Coen Brothaz

I was very saddened and my heart sunk at the end of No Country for Old Men, produced by Joel and Ethan Coen, when the credits unexpectedly appeared. Maybe it was because the media and everybody around me built it up to be a masterpiece, but I was let down. Even so, I thought it was an above average film, just not the academy award winning film it is. I thought they did a great job producing the lone desert feel to the setting of the film. Anton Chigurh, played by Javier Bardem, was a stone-cold faced killer with zero compassion towards people's lives. He made the movie great in my opinion. He was a very flat character in a way because all we know about him is that he likes money and doesn't even have to swallow after killing somebody. Everything he did scared the crap out of me, and when he was in a shootout in the street with Moss I felt like I was in Moss' position and actually running away. Having Moss in the movie made me able to relate because Moss was an average guy like all of us trying to act tough. When he told Chigurh that he should be worried on the phone, and ended up looking pathetic on camera, I thought of a friend trying to act tough on the phone to another high school punk. The thing that brought the film down a level to me was that there was to climax to all the action. The whole movie I was thinking that there was going to be a twist or a car chase, but there was no climax. After seeing Moss dead, I realized there might not be a climax, and my thoughts were confirmed when the credits came up after Ed Tom Bell spoke, "And then I woke up."