My take of on No Country For Old Men that includes what I have come to view as an important artistic statement about our involvement in Iraq.
Following in the footsteps of the Vietnam allegory contained within the original book by Cormac McCarthy, the Coen Brothers tap into the very American condition of always viewing our enemies through the prism of our own myths, a condition that is ill-suited to effectively combatting convoluted chasms like those found in Iraq.
It is statement about looking at issues through a third way. It no longer serves our needs to always utilize antiquated conservative or liberal methods. Sometimes, we, like Hamlet, need the ghost of a father to show us how to deal with our current predicament.
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