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In Reply to: RE: No country for old men posted by David Aiken on May 02, 2008 at 14:30:03
The reason I qualified my assessment is that the main characters seem, to me at least, to represent ideas and themes as much as actual human beings. Anton, for example, seems to be the embodiment of indifferent fate, not even malevolent, just random with his coin flip. And he comes with his best deal, which is not a great deal, but it is after all, a deal we all face sooner or later. Real human motivation or emotion was lacking. In that sense, I did not find this movie so much about character as about ideas, although ideas made manifest in human form. Feel free to disagree, the great thing about great movies, and I count this as one, is that they allow multiple interpretations.
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I didn't think the characters represented themes or ideas, but I did think they personified certain aspects of human character. I certainly didn't think Anton represented fate. I think he was just what he was described as by another character, a psychopath with no sense of emotion and a strangely twisted sense of honour.
And I certainly agree about great movies allowing multiple interpretations, especially by each of us individually over time. The thing that makes a work of art great, regardless of its type, in my view is its ability to reveal something new to us each time we revisit it. We keep finding new things in great art and our appreciation of it grows. That's what keeps us coming back to it.
David Aiken
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