On a basic level, I understand the comparison of No Country for Old Men to the Coen Brother's earlier films Fargo and Blood Simple - but in many ways their newest film is a culmination of their entire career. Each film in their oeuvre - both good and bad, drama and comedy - have led to this exquisite rendering of Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel. As an adaptation of someone else's work, it divorces the brothers from a career of making homages to genres - not that films like Millers Crossing ... read more
