I’m not sure that the following logic is particularly strong, “Since it exists in a very good movie then it must exist in real life”. Is this not the argument made by the author of this blog? Also, I’m not sure how having a sensible, less accident prone spot to keep one’s drink during a theater experience manages to spoil an audience. The fact is, theaters charge an inordinate amount of money for the theater experience and with so many alternative ways to watch a film, I would think it good business practice to give customers a cleaner, high quality environment in which to watch a film. If they could make hand carved armrests with cup-holders in them, rather then the plastic ones, that would be the best of both worlds, no?
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.
