I've taken months to digest NCfOM for this comment

Rating: 10/10 (21 April 2008)

It's good that I've deferred jotting a note here for a while; I've got it down to a few pat words.
No Country for Old Men is a commentary on the American-style myth of the Rugged Individualist.
I was about to say it was "overdue"; like, they maybe could/should have explored this myth during, say, the Reagan era.
But I think the extreme way they explore it matches the status of that myth in present-day American society; so it's pitch perfect. It's an attempt to pull us from a specific brink. This is truly a prophetic movie.
And, by the way, the Oscar folks know all this. Some reading this comment may be curious how/why a film like "No Country" could have won so many awards; what's with that?
The answer, I think, relates to my comment. If what I say is true, then think of how rare and precious that is.