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Originally Posted by habernac
NCFOM commentary might be the best I've read about that movie, Ro! I still have yet to see it a second time, great, great stuff!!
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Thanks a lot. I mean that! I think you'll find you'll enjoy it from a different perspective upon seeing it a second time, and perhaps even moreso after some time to reflect on it.
But a great deal of that came from reading hours worth of material about it from various sites, and redigesting the film over multiple viewings. It really is a remarkable film in that so much of what the viewer gets out of it is directly related to the effort they put into reading it, but also that the Coens purposefully and masterfully created it to be that way- so many things are deliberately left open to critical analysis and interpretation. In the hands of lesser filmmakers and if the material came from a lesser source, Chigurh may have been captured by Ed Tom, and the scene in which Moss's fate is sealed may have been shown onscreen, and the ending may have been wrapped up with a bow on top. So much of the film's strength is in what it
does not show explicitly. I found that gratifying and refreshing right from the first viewing, and probably will for the rest of my life.
Here's a link you might enjoy- one of the best takes on the film I've read anywhere:
http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners/2..._the_skin.html