Mid Term
The film No Country for Old Men directed by Joel and Ethan Coen has a very specific meaning ,that would have not been played out well without the ways narration and editing were used throughout the film. The aesthetics of the film played well together to make such an interesting plot. Many tools of cinema were used throughout the movie but these two specifically stood out to me to give the movie the meaning that it did.This films ending was surprising, and worked the way it did with the extraordinary ways narration and editing were used to come to that particular ending.
No Country for Old Men has a theme and ending that could be interrupted in many different ways. The beginning of the movie has you believe that a whole different …show more content…
You have the cat and mouse chase between the soulless bad guy, Anton, and Llewelyn , who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. At the same time you are also seeing what is happening with Sheriff Ed Bell who is chasing after both of them. This sharing of time and space makes the movie more suspenseful as you watch the three men get closer and closer to each other, wondering each of their fates. The beginning of the film starts off being narrated by Bell but quickly stops. I feel that this is an important meaning in the movie, the audience is suppose to feel as if Bell is a superior character who might have an authority hold over the man you see being put into the police car but that feeling quickly disappears after Bells first person narrative stops and even more after Anton kills the office who arrested him , leaving the audience wondering who really has the authority. A cause and effect chain of events happen after Llewelyn finds the drug money and has a moral dilemma weather to take the money or not. The conflict of the movie begins after Llewelyn regretfully takes the money. This sets up of chain of events effects what leads to the unusual ending. The way the story is told in the film you are made to believe that the chase between Llewelyn and Anton is the main focus, but after Llewelyn is unseemly murdered the audience is left wondering what the
The film No Country for Old Men directed by Joel and Ethan Coen has a very specific meaning ,that would have not been played out well without the ways narration and editing were used throughout the film. The aesthetics of the film played well together to make such an interesting plot. Many tools of cinema were used throughout the movie but these two specifically stood out to me to give the movie the meaning that it did.This films ending was surprising, and worked the way it did with the extraordinary ways narration and editing were used to come to that particular ending.
No Country for Old Men has a theme and ending that could be interrupted in many different ways. The beginning of the movie has you believe that a whole different …show more content…
You have the cat and mouse chase between the soulless bad guy, Anton, and Llewelyn , who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. At the same time you are also seeing what is happening with Sheriff Ed Bell who is chasing after both of them. This sharing of time and space makes the movie more suspenseful as you watch the three men get closer and closer to each other, wondering each of their fates. The beginning of the film starts off being narrated by Bell but quickly stops. I feel that this is an important meaning in the movie, the audience is suppose to feel as if Bell is a superior character who might have an authority hold over the man you see being put into the police car but that feeling quickly disappears after Bells first person narrative stops and even more after Anton kills the office who arrested him , leaving the audience wondering who really has the authority. A cause and effect chain of events happen after Llewelyn finds the drug money and has a moral dilemma weather to take the money or not. The conflict of the movie begins after Llewelyn regretfully takes the money. This sets up of chain of events effects what leads to the unusual ending. The way the story is told in the film you are made to believe that the chase between Llewelyn and Anton is the main focus, but after Llewelyn is unseemly murdered the audience is left wondering what the