"At the Movies" by Michael Wood -- A discussion of No Country for Old Man (directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen)
|It says he doesn’t understand what’s happening, of course; but it also says he doesn’t believe he doesn’t understand.|
|The moderns wanted to be new, fast. This urgency demanded that the old be eliminated.|
|Modernism was the culture of an age of mass death. [...] Death was both figurative and literal, evident in the mechanisation of the world and the industrial killing of modern war.|
|Where has youth gone? Why dost thou lash that whore? Why are you looking at me like that?|
|now those of us who deal in metaphors don’t know how to make machines.|
|Spectral pedestrians are never children, though many children are killed on the roads.|
|In other words, for an anthology of blogs to work, the blogs it contains have to be as unbloglike – as booklike – as possible. |
|In the film moderately scrutable orientals play inscrutable orientals pretending to be inscrutable orientals.|
|he is cautious as well as lustful, more cautious than lustful at this moment|
|It’s not, I think, that she is actually tempting. Only that she is a perfect picture of what temptation is supposed to look like.|
|‘complexity of combinations, contortions of the partners, everything is beyond human nature.’|
|Be cautious about lust, that story would rather sentimentally go, because even simulated lust may turn you into a human being.|
|Her husband left her: said
they couldn’t be his, they were more
fish than human;
he said they were beglamoured,
and searched their skin for the showing marks.|
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