Wasn't trying to win an award, remained faithful to the book. The message also wasn't shoved in your face, mainly due to the frightful mirror the film provided. It is one of the few films I've seen that actually deserved the award for best picture.
Of course idiotic high-schoolers will rave about it just because the film had no cheese in it whatsoever, but they didn't understand the movie itself. But the fellows of the institute who've actually watched films, read books, and in a term been enlightened to the hard truths of the gritty backdrop such films like "No Country" provided. The point of the movie was the overall struggle for survival is simply determined by an unfeeling probability, a man can simply slide the hands cuffs from underneath his legs and then strangle a cop. To me it seemed to be very similar to "The Seventh Seal."
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-John Martyn
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