It is by their sacrifice that Liberals can feel warm and fuzzy in hating America.

The Cohen brothers have done this before in “Fargo” – a world with people like Marge and Norm who are unable to comprehend how Grimsrud (and his partner Carl, prior to being fed into a wood chipper …) can do what they do “for a little bit of money.”

But alas, as Ubu Roi notes, “the modern, humanist left cannot even begin to grasp evil like Chigurh”. I saw both of these films in the company of a kind of NYC audience who importantly and intelligently laughed at all the wrong times.

Of course, they’ve been properly educated to parse and appreciate the neo-post-ironic subtext of the story they think they saw …

After 9/11 I lost my appetite for violent films. I’m not interested in seeing “No Country.” Violent films literally make me feel sick.

However, I regularly go to YouTube and LiveLeak and watch videos of terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan being blown to pieces.

People call it “war porn.” It’s not that I’m getting off on it, but I feel a grim, ice-cold satisfaction seeing these bastards running for their lives as the high-explosive cannon shells burst all around them, and then the poor sons-of-bitches literally disintegrate.

The only way to confront this kind of evil is to kill it, and nothing is deader than a terrorist hit by a 30mm cannon shell.

To be honest with you all, I did not see the story as one of good vs evil and the necessity of confronting evil. Nope…

What I got out of the book is how personal decisions impact the individual. And, how ambiguous AND random life and fate truly are.

This is not a gratuitous film, but it is unquestionably a film for adults. I applaud the Cohen brothers and Cormac McCarthy for making such a thoughtful and demanding film. Another note: the production values are out of this world; brilliant casting, cinematography, sound, lighting etc. This is a exceedingly well-crafted work.

I agree that we must hunt down any enemy who is engaged in war against us (Jihadis). We should maintain embargoes against nations who have stolen the property of American businesses (Cuba), and make life miserable for the leaders of nations which threaten to pass nuclear or bio-chemical weapons to our enemies.

While Brigit Johnson has decided that the most significant element to “No Country For Old Men” is its good guy vs bad guy theme, It seemed to me that the issues of choice and pre-destination were far more interesting and better developed then any other question.

We have populations on both the Right and the Left who feel strongly that they make decisions every day and that their will alone has brought them to where they have arrived in any given moment. Meanwhile, many members of both the Right and Left believe either in the Grace of G-d or the world as an uncountable series of chemicals whose future can be divined by the right computer model.

What I find amazing is, all that the ancient arguments school had taught me had been settled in our modern age, those that one needs only wait out the old folk’s exit to be rid of entirely, have been revived or never went away and both arguments can and have been made with eloquence and sense by one of the few films worthy of winning a best film award.