Violence, Nihilism and Philosophy

Rating: 10/10 (19 August 2016)

I read the book that this movie was based on a few months back, and I'd been meaning to see it ever sense. At first, I was befuddled by the ending. Llewelyn is murdered by drug dealers, and his innocent young wife (she's 19 in the book) is killed at the hands of Chigurh. I figured it was strange, seeing the bad guy lose. But then I understood that it was just McCarthy's grim picture of a violent world. A violent place which is NOT FOR OLD MEN. The film surpassed my expectation, with Bardem playing the strangely principled human terminator Chigurh and Tommy Lee Jones playing the nihilistically minded sheriff Ed Tom Bell. The acting was brilliant, the writing and direction were brilliant. All of it was absolutely brilliant. I highly recommend this film for fans of the original novel, and for people who just enjoy a good film.