We Should Make a Country for the Elderly

Rating: 9/10 (3 September 2014)

The film No Country for Old Men had been on my watchlist for a long,long time. I had been on a Coen brothers movies binge for the past few days, and I had already seen Fargo, Barton Fink, and Burn After Reading. The Coen brothers have a signature witty style that continues in this film. This movie was great,and it treats the audience intelligently, which is something that is rare to experience in most modern movies. Javier Bardem plays an intimidating villain that will give you chills with every scene. My favorite film by this pair of movie makers is still Barton Fink, but this film was a close second for me.
The topic I would like to talk about today, though, is an idea that the title of this movie gave me. It is true that there is no country for old men. This is a young man's world. There is no room for the elderly of today, man or woman. Yeah that's right, women. You thought you were getting out of this one, but you know what I say to that? "No way, José." This idea isn't gender specific.
Okay, so my thought is that since there is no country for the elderly, we should create one! We need to designate a plot of land and send all of the old people to it. Don't worry. We'll fill it with bingo parlors,bowling alleys, and craft shops. It will be totally humane. They will be free to roam the land and graze where they please. We can also create life-like mannequins that look like young people for the elderly to bore with their talk of the good ol' days. They'll never notice with their vision in the bad condition that it's in.
And I already know a place that we can put them. I say we clear out Australia and put them there. Australians need to get back in touch with the world anyway. I mean, c'mon, it's time for you guys to get into some wars.
We'll put the old people on this island continent and keep them there so they can't hold back our emerging generation and bother us. We can occasionally send PBS down there to interview them, so we can stay educated on history and all that bologna. And they'll love the chance to get attention again after years of being ignored and never called by their relatives.
I don't want to hear crap like "No! We love Grandma, and we don't want her to leave us!". This is for the greater good. Get with the program. If you aren't with me, then by definition you are against me. And you don't want to be against me. Ask my date to the junior prom. If you want, you can send her a laptop, and you two can skype each other if she can figure out how to use the dagnabbed robot contraption.
To conclude, I would highly suggest seeing this witty, intelligent, and intense film, and if you like my idea to create an all-youth international society, call your local representative. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Fellow IMDb user blakelogsdon1