Alright. What we circulate? Lookin' for a man who has recently drunk milk?

Crystal and I finished watching No Country for Old Men last night (I have seen it before, I think I've talked about it previously in this blog, but she hadn't yet. I wanted to watch Garden State after ranting and raving about it in my last post, but I couldn't find my copy of the movie. I was PISSED to say the least) after starting it the night before last. We often watch movies in bits. Why? Because we are tired, tired things. I remember the days I used to stay up til 4 or 5 in the morning. Ah, foolishness. Now I go to bed at midnight. Have to get me some REST, y'all.

Well, that was an odd tangent.

No Country for Old Men really is one of the most perfect movies I can imagine there being on this world. It's so well shot (odd side note - the Coen brothers are obsessed with feet), the color palette is fantastic (dusty desert tones throughout the movie), the acting is brilliant, there's subtle humor, and it's so incredibly suspenseful. It’s also one of the few suspense movies I’ve seen that actively subverts its own genre and typically storyline, which I think is brilliant.

I remember going to see this at the Spectrum with Schuyler when it first came out, and for some reason, I thought the movie was much longer than it actually is (it runs 122 mins, but seems much shorter than that), and so I ran to the bathroom without thinking I would miss anything. When I came back, I asked if I had missed anything important, and Schuyler laughed. He said, “Yeah, actually, I think you missed the most important scene out of the entire movie.” So I made him go see it with me, again, before the Spectrum stopped showing it, and he was right. I had skipped out on the entire scene between Ed Tom and Ellis, the man with all the cats – and it’s one of my favorite scenes in the entire film.

I remember being shocked by how honestly and unapologetically violent this film was – and how much I appreciated it, despite how tough it was to sit through, at times. Even now, there are scenes during which I avert my eyes and that turn my stomach.

If you haven’t seen it, you should. It definitely earned every Oscar it won last year. Cheers to a good movie!