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Originally Posted by Guru
I already answered that.
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Not in that last post, you didn't. You answered that you were annoyed at the film because of your desire to see the death of a character that has earned your emotional investment.
My question is why do you have that desire? And not just you. Why does pretty much everyone naturally have that desire?
Of course, the film (and, similarly, the Cormac McCarthy novel it was adapted from) is intentionally trying to get the audience to think about that very question. It is a film about the impersonal nature of evil, about man's solipsistic conception of evil ("why does this bad stuff happen to me? What did I do?"), and about exploring and challenging the artistic construction of genre works and some of the more universal aspects of storytelling.
People are supposed to feel annoyed or cheated by the film, but they're also supposed to think about why they feel the way they do. When people say that they don't like
No Country for Old Men, they often really mean "I don't like self-reflection."