This last weekend I watched No Country for Old Men and The Darjeeling Limited, both of which disappointed me. I just read Rolling Stone's review of No Country for Old Men (here) and I really didn't think that the movie was as deep as they gave it credit for being. Have I missed something? They claim that the story is a picture of America as a whole with our eroded values and increasing appetite for violence. While I don't need a movie to convince me of those things, but I have a hard time seeing the typical American in the state that the movie depicts, even if it is figurative.
As far as The Darjeeling Limited, I'm not sure it even deserves as much space and energy as I've given it here. So, I'll stop.
Please enlighten me if I need to be...
Thoughts on life, culture and our world
4 comments:
i felt like n.c.f.o.m. was a complete waste of my time. the only person that i could find who liked it was a head doctor(really). i have struggled to find movies that i really get into lately.
Ah, I liked Darjeeling Limited. It had it's weak points for sure, but I'm always a sucker for messed family dynamics. It helped I saw it with my brother.
Wow, i loved those movies...ncfom--the story, the acting, the comment on depravity and existential questions...And the darjeeling limited--do you have any siblings? it made me miss and appreciate my brothers, i really wanted to watch it again with them. i think viewed with Anderson's other work there is a major theme of what is family and forgiveness.
Now that you've done cultural literacy, have you any additional comments on these films?
Will,
Yes, I actually do have different thoughts about these after CL, especially ncfom. I think I should watch it again with some bigger questions in mind. However some of the violence is hard for me to watch, so I have to mentally prepare for it. I think one of my main points in this post is questioning exactly why it won the awards it did. I partly wonder if it's just because the movie is so different than anything else out there now. I don't think that's a good enough reason. (Although I do think there's more to it than that.)
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