First off, this guy above, he's the baddest/craziest/smartest mofo you'll ever seen in a movie. Period. I was having nightmares about Anton Chigur before he stepped foot on screen.Javier Bardem deserved that Oscar, no doubt about it.
No Country For Old Men was a very tense, haunting, and depressingly true tale of the small, forgotten elements that exist in our country. You know, the small towns, the gas station clerks, the blue collar workers who are struggling to make ends meet, the parts of this country who work so hard to get ahead yet never get anywhere. Some people begrudgingly accept it (Tommy Lee Jones), and some people fight it (Josh Brolin), and some people fall off the tracks (Javier Bardem), or in Bardem's characters case, they completely destroy said tracks.
I'm not saying this movie is a completely realistic portrayal of these ideals, but it does do an effective job of presenting them in the framework of a down and out welder who happens across $2 million dollars, and is subsequently hunted down by the most sadistic assassin since well.....since ever. Through excellent cinematography and selective, smart dialog, and odd pacing, the Coen Brothers delivered a movie experience that I've never seen before. I won't go so far to say that it was my favorite movie from 2007, because there where a few more that I "enjoyed" more, or shall I say, put me in a better mood. However, No Country for Old Men more than deserved Best Picture honors for the level of detail and expert story telling that it displays. This is movie that will stick with you for a long time.
9/10
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