The 2008 Cohen Borthers’ movie No country for old man has a fairly simple straightforward plot: a man, 
Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin), while wandering in the desert comes across the scene of a massacre: dead bodies everywhere, stashes of heroine or cocaine in the back of Pick Up trucks. It is clearly the scene of a drug deal that went horribly wrong. Brolin follows a trace of blood and finds a dead man with a case, inside the case are 2 million dollars in cash. Unsurprisingly, Brolin takes the money and flees the scene. Then, later on that night he makes a mistake and returns to the scene. It’s a fatal mistake. The Mexican dealers find out about him and put Anton Chigurh (Javier Barden), a psychopath killer, on his trail, to recover the money and kill Brolin. The movie is all there, but this is not Trantino, and like the original Cormack McCarty’s book and like in every Cohen Brother’s movie, simplicity is just an other way to dissect the complexity and absurdity behind most of human behavior. This is an almost perfect thriller/noir movie, it’s also a master class in direction and acting, so good that you might find yourself disappointed by its (coherent – anti-hollywood) end.
All of the actors, even those who play in it for just few seconds or minutes, like Woody Harrelson, are always believable, always in character. Notwithstanding the Cohen’s unmistakable signature throughout every scene, this is a different movie than their previous works, Fargo for instance. There is no sense of humor in the movie, and i think that is for the better,. This is in fact just a gripping tale of greed and madness, perfectly exemplified by Javier Barden’s psychopath character (with a great haircut, one must add). The 4 Oscars at the 2008 Academy Awards ceremony were all deserved (at least from what I have seen), throughout that year. Yet it surprised me a bit: it is a movie that leaves no space for hope. And generally the Academy does not like that, well I guess this year was an exception.
