No country for old men

The 2007 Oscar winning film by Coen brothers was spectacular! After a long time I have seen such a stylish thriller. Its no wonder that it won 4 academy awards including the best picture. The movie has a tranquil, dry, barren background of the wild west and maintains that tone/feel throughout. The various motels near texas/mexico border are shown to be quite tense and creepy with people carrying guns and weapons freely. There is a lot of bloodshed, thanks to the silent presence of Chigurh, played by Javier Bardem, who btw was fantastic. His character was my most favorite in the movie. His mere presence in the scene is threatening enough. He walks around calmly like an angel of death with a never-seen-before weapon, which he uses to blow off the locks on doors and to kill his victims by creating a hole in the head. His weird haircut and the weapon gives his character a mysterious, psychopathic air, which was superb. Even the scene where he shoots a bird sitting on a metal bridge entering Del Rio and the jarring sound that the bullet makes afterwards was taken superbly. Or even the other scene where he unscrews the grill using a dime was simply brilliant. He sure as hell deserved that Oscar for the best supporting actor's role. Josh Brolin's character gets a lot of sympathy right from the beginning. Though the movie starts and ends with a narration by Tommy Lee Jones, his character, I thought was underplayed and did not have much scope to develop itself. But he fitted the role of a county sheriff in the cowboy land. I guess, his character is 'supposed to be' the central one and hence the name of the movie is what it is. The ending, as seen before in Coen brothers' movies, is abrupt. Though the movie revolves around a black bag full of cash, its irrelevant in the end who gets the loot or what exactly had happened on the remote location with dead bodies lying around where the money was found. Its mainly the portrayal of the characters and the wild feel of the movie that remained in my mind afterwards. But all in all its a beautifully crafted thriller drama with lot of style and character to it.