Llewelyn discovered the money while hunting, Chigurh is the same sociopathic killer, and Sheriff Bell deals with the same troubling emotions throughout the case. Although there are a few variations compared to McCarthy’s novel, the primary plot points are the same.

The Coen brothers made a stunningly morally based film that stayed true to the source material. Meanwhile, taciturn Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) oversees the investigation while struggling to face the crimes he’s destined to face. Hunter Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) discovers a suitcase filled with money while discovering the remains of the leftover drug runners.Īmidst Llewelyn’s discovery of the money, sociopath Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) gets on Llewelyn’s trail and murders every rival and bystander in his pursuit of the money. What is No Country For Old Men About?īased on the 2005 novel of the same name by Cormac McCarthy, No Country For Old Men tells the tale of an illegal drug deal gone awry in the Texas backcountry. The surface of No Country For Old Men may appear like a violent crime-filled film like Dirty Harry (1971) or The Departed (2006), but instead, the Coen brothers delivered a powerful and subtle film that deals with the notion of doing right from wrong, and the sociopaths in between. A film that revolves around violence and mayhem takes the audience back with a constant slow-drip of anxiety while enduring such a disturbing storyline and interesting characters. Ethan and Joel Coen truly broke ground with the release of No Country For Old Men in 2007.

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