My best friend lost his father two years prior jumping under the train in New York. I was the last person who saw him the night before he did it. He loved that movie and told me to watch the ending monologue. We were both in our early 20s. Now, many years later, I still feel awful because I missed that little clue he gave me.
This scene hits me much harder after having read The Road. My interpretation is that Sheriff Bell’s dad in the dream was “carrying the fire” like the man and the boy in The Road. Bell sees his father as a force for good in the world, carrying the fire of the past he so fondly remembers as “the good times” through the cold and dark. Bell feels like the fire is gone from the world he inhabits and he’s struggling to find a way to change the world he lives in to make it resemble his idyllic memory of the past before it descended into chaos and senseless violence. But then he starts to realize that the world has always been that way, he just didn’t notice or realize it before. Now that he sees the world for the chaotic, violent place that it is - and has always been - he begins to think that the only way to experience the fire again is by joining his father in death and leaving this world behind completely, because there is no saving it.
My father had a similar dream. He said he was walking toward my grandfather who was leaning up against a tree with his back towards him. When he walked up to him he never turned around and he woke up. My father now has passed and I’ve had a few dreams of him. In the dreams he don’t realize he’s passed and visited me. Before I woke up I told him he was gone and was shocked. He was wanting me to stay but he didn’t know he passed on. Then I woke up. When I first saw the film I thought “that’s it?” Now I get it.
シガーが死の擬人化かのように見えるけど コイントス拒否からラストまでのシーンで全て覆る構造が好き コインと一緒に来たからといってコインそのものであるわけじゃなくて 結局彼も釣銭機のその他のコインと同じく 選ばれる側でしかなかった no country for old menの意味は社会問題と絡めてアメリカはもはや老人の住む国ではないって解釈されたりするが 個人的には老人の国はない、何故なら皆死ぬから って単純明快な意味だと思ってる
A good interpretation, Cormac intended the message to be, and please excuse the language barrier, “there never was a country for old men to die peacefully and for children to play in pure safety.” It’s a comment on the classic American “Good old days” myth. There never were “good old days” it’s just the same experiences of brutality and greed and unreasonable death and destruction that our fathers struggled with, and their fathers, and their fathers, as far back as people can remember having fathers. Cormac wanted to say with this book “Nostalgia is a lie to fool us and the ‘good ol’ days’ is a myth to comfort us.
Look, hate me all you want, but I have to be honest: Overall, this movie just didn’t do it for me. I can see why people like it, but LOVE it or even hailed it as a masterpiece and one of the best films of the century?! I just can’t see it that way. The acting and the pacing of the film just felt painfully flat and slow. It was way too dialogue/exposition heavy. Very little to no music. It also just felt all over the place in terms of the themes, storylines, and characters. The Ed Tom Bell character storyline felt like it was from a different movie and was trying to shoehorn its way into No Country and had very little to no impact other than exposition. Also, the drug cartel as well as the Carson Wells character had very little explanation or development as well. Lastly, Anton’s shotgun and its sound gave off a completely sci fi feel to the movie that did not belong. To be honest, it could’ve worked SO MUCH BETTER as a mini series instead. That’s me!
MOJEGO SERCA ZABRAKNIE NA UMIŁOWANIE TEGO PROGRAMU : ) . p.s. pan kuba wojewódzki nie jest dla mnie wyrocznią . jest wyznacznikiem mojej inteligencji i wrażliwości : )
The dark and the cold represents Bell's life experiences, especially the recent ones, knowing that his father is going ahead with the fire (the light), Bell knowing that his father will have the fire going the next time they meet with be Bell meeting his father in heaven, beside the fire (the light)
Reminder that Bell isn't talking about going to meet his father in death 💀 Common misinterpretation. The meaning is: Bell is now older than his late father by 20 years. This should make him 20 years wiser, but he doesn't feel that way. He still sees his father as the older, wiser man. The cold landscape is a symbol of the cold, harsh, hostile world Bell lives in. He still wishes there was someone ahead of him-above him, in front of him-to build a safe place, to show him that everything will be fine. Then he "woke up". There is nobody ahead of him. He's confused, scared, and totally alone. It has nothing to do with death.
I watched this in a Cinema in Tyngsboro Massachusett when it came out.By then i was a full on Coen Bros. fanboy and would have watched a movie about just about anything , as long as it was an Ethen/Joel flick. i watched this ending and being completly blown away at the suddebnness of it. the immediacy, the forecefulness ihn which you were made to make an immediate choice. I i9mmediately undertood the immediacy and moral ambililance of the ending and realizing this was the best movien ending sinfe Emptire Strikdes back and One Flew Over The Cuckooos Nest before. . Some very angry, white trash woman only yelled WHAT THE FUCK. at the ending , solidifying my opinon of the ending.
