Musick Hund Guest Blogger Comments
2001 and No Country for Old Men
When I first saw NCFOM I was struck by how the opening shots of the West Texas landscape evoked the opening shots of the (primitive) African landscape in 2001. Beyond that aesthetic evocation there’s Anton Chigur, who behaves a lot like a malevolent malfunctioning computer. Beyond that there’s the theme of humans having to pretend they have a grasp on their destinies even as the universe continually refuses to play along (I mean, for instance, a doomed astronaut blandly receiving his parents “See you next Wednesday" message sign-off, a doomed West Texas welder’s macho desperation in the face of Chigur’s blank implacability).
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