No Country For Old Men Essay

No Country for Old Men is a non-typical western film which was directed by Co-en brothers. The cultural background was set in the 1980s America, “where people in that society were confused, selfish, indifferent and loss of faith”(C Hauke, 12). What the film showed was just a society full of such features. The country was an indifferent world and had no back-up to anyone. The Coen Brothers used black humor, one of the most famous schools in modern American literature, to reflect the dark sides of modern society with irony, humorous style, satirizing humanity’s foolish and insanity and the sad conditions of individual living. Hence, this film told a black story which showed that under such a social atmosphere no one could find his backer. The

In the film, the powerlessness and pain of the old police in the killer event let the audiences feel sad. The sad fits perfectly the title of the film that the old police has lost his back-up from the society. The world is constantly advancing, in the tide of the times, the heroes in the past time have been old. For an old man, the old strength and the idea can not adapt to the new life and new social concepts and rules, which seems poorer for an old police. At the beginning of the film, the old police recalled back for the long memory of the past, missing their parents who were also policemen, those days can get out of the police without carrying a gun. At that time, the police was the hero of the world, the social order was relatively good.; at that time, unlike the case so complex at today’s world,

The desolate west land in America remind people of the westward movement in history. It is like that the god has made joke to the people. Instead of dream and fortune, selfish, mocking, absurd and sadness are the main impression that the film transport to