This is really just a continuation from the post below but since it didn't have anything to do with American Gangster I thought I would make it a separate post. After the film ended and feeling that the Movie Tavern owed me another movie I slipped into the screening of No Country For Old Men. It was about thirty minutes into the film and it played even better on a second viewing. It was much funnier than I remembered and just as intense. The ending also played much better when I knew what to expect. Like I've said before it is perfect but I didn't realize how much a seemingly unimportant scene with a seemingly unimportant character sort of leads us to the ending. It happens a few minutes before and it is the only appearance of this character but he basically sums up the whole film in his very spare dialogue.
I know this is going to sound pretentious but I really think the ending may be too smart for a lot of people. I didn't fully understand it after the first time I saw it and was only able to fully comprehend it (at least my interpretation of it) after seeing it a second time and knowing fully what to expect.
I am pretty sure everyone in the theater wasn't a fan of the film. The group in front of me was already upset that they stopped serving beer at 11 and I overheard another guy leaving having this conversation with no one in particular:
"That was bullshit, I want my money back. Hell, I wasn't even paying attention."
Probably why this film won't win best picture, even though it completely deserves it. I'm not sure that people will take the time to really try and understand it.
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