No Country for Old Men (film)


No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American neoWestern thriller directed, written, and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name. Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin, it tells the story of a Texas welder and Vietnam vet to whom chance and greed deliver a fate that is neither wanted nor denied a catandmouse drama set in the desert landscape of 1980 West Texas. Themes of fate, conscience, and circumstance are explored ones that the Coen brothers have previously explored in Blood Simple and Fargo.

In 1980 West Texas, Anton Chigurh, a hitman, strangles a sheriffs deputy to escape custody and steals a car by using a captive bolt pistol to kill the driver.While hunting in the desert, Llewelyn Moss comes across the aftermath of a drug deal gone awry. He finds several dead men and dogs, a wounded Mexican begging for water, and two million dollars in a pilots case. He takes the money and returns home. That night, Moss returns to the scene with water. He is pursued by two men in a truck and escapes. At home, he sends his wife, Carla Jean, to stay with her mother, then drives to a motel in the next county, where he hides the case in the air vent of his room. ........

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