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No Country For Old Men

Watched it last night, thought it was good not great.
Felt a bit let down by the ending....

Please explain what the fuck the ending was about?



  • he was dead all along

    duh

  • Internal Affairs were setting up the cops.

  • The ending is to emphasise that the viewer should be focusing on

    Tommy lee jones' character throughout the film, rather than the superficial chase plot. It relates to the title "No country for old men" which is from one of Yeats' historical poems about the way he saw ireland and the conflict irish nationalists and Britain, if I remember. I'll try and find it

    • ah no i'm mistaken it's from Sailing To Byzantium

      deals with age, the after life and art and all the poncey stuff from yeats' good poncey ones. here it is

      That is no country for old men. The young
      In one another's arms, birds in the trees--
      Those dying generations -- at their song,
      The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
      Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long
      Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.
      Caught in that sensual music all neglect
      Monuments of unageing intellect.

      II
      An aged man is but a paltry thing,
      A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
      Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
      For every tatter in its mortal dress,
      Nor is there singing school but studying
      Monuments of its own magnificence;
      And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
      To the holy city of Byzantium.

      III
      O sages standing in God's holy fire
      As in the gold mosaic of a wall,
      Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
      And be the singing-masters of my soul.
      Consume my heart away; sick with desire
      And fastened to a dying animal
      It knows not what it is; and gather me
      Into the artifice of eternity.

      IV.
      Once out of nature I shall never take
      My bodily form from any natural thing,
      But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
      Of hammered gold and gold enamelling
      To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;
      Or set upon a golden bough to sing
      To lords and ladies of Byzantium
      Of what is past, or passing, or to come.

      • I am a man of science

        So this has my rather perplexed but reads rather nice
        :)

        • good innit

          it's basically about Tommy Lee Jones' being completely out of his depth as he's getting too old and can't deal with the horrifying scary haircut man. It's a great film.

          • But the ending...

            did it not leave you feeling a little unsatisfied/underwhelmed?

            • my attention had just wandered for the first time in the film

              and then the credits popped up. i felt low

              • me too

                i drifted off for 15 seconds, then it was finished. damn.

            • I guess that was the point

              *spoilers*
              It tricked you into thinking that the main guy (i can't remember character names, embarrassingly) was the hero, but died a pretty unheroic death whilst tommy lee jones just couldn't deal with it. The lull after he died was supposed to mimic that which TLJ was supposed to be feeling just before he quit the police force, I guess.

              • llewelyn

                was the main guys name, it was cool when his wife said 'damn you llewelyn'

                • His wife was hot!

                  where have i seen her before?

                  • Trainspotting!

                    Or a L'Oreal ad.

                    • yeah she's the schoolgirl

                      in trainspotting

                    • Trainspotting!

                      That was a youthful wank-bank scene
                      ;-)

                      • I didn't realise it

                        was her until the end credits. Her accent was pretty not bad at all.

                      • my oh my

  • can anyone remind me the ending of this film

    i remember thinking it was acez, but not much else.

    pm me if you don't wanna put it in the thread. plz n thx. yeah!

    • tommy lee jones talking about dreams he'd had or something

      wasnt it, before that there's that car crash with chigurh...

    • AND THEN I WOKE UP

  • i really love this film