No Country For Old Men (2007)

A film about a depraved mercenary with a horrifically botched haircut, a cop tired of it all, and a not so bad guy who finds a lot of drug money.

The characters are quirky perhaps as is supposedly expected from the Coen brothers. The bounty hunter is a completely illogical character following his own rules so different from everyone else.

I'm inclined to say I didn't like the film. But actually it was just okay. It surely doesn't deserve the Oscars it received.

-- Major spoilers --

The sheriff talks to his uncle and in answer to the question about why he wants to retire, says something like that he expected god to step in [to stop the bad guys], but he never did. But in some minor way, does god step in somehow? The bounty hunter has an accident towards the end of the film, where his car is hit by another one running a red light. But of course, the guy doesn't die, but certainly was in pain. Divine retribution? The annoying thing about this idea is that if god bothered to see all this, and that's all that happened to the bastard, god really didn't go all out there. I suppose there is a line of argument that god wouldn't just go and kill the dude -- i.e. he's too subtle for that. Well, maybe...

Which reminds me that it seems that god saved the guy who happened on the money. There was a lightning strike which happens just before the time he makes his escape from the Mexicans who are also after the money. And in fact he does miraculously get away on foot with the Mexicans behind him in big truck. They should have easily run him down, but somehow didn't. He had in fact gone back to do a good deed, i.e. give water to the dying Mexican.

And then of course god is mad at the guy later because he seems willing to cheat on his wife with some woman near the pool. And so it goes downhill from there for him. He dies.

All of this is very annoying to me as, god doesn't exist, remember? I guess it's unavoidable to see a movie made by believers. But someone needs to warn us non-believers beforehand.