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A Critical Look at the Coens' "No Country for Old Men" |
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by Steve Sivyer In honor of the film, which comes out on video todayish, I thought I'd dredge up this essay I wrote back before it was famous. Warning: here be spoilers! That is no country for old men[...] An aged man is but a paltry thing (1,9) W.B. Yeats, “Sailing to Byzantium” The history of humanity is one of violence and cruelty, of expending enormous intellectual and emotional power toward visiting each upon one another. |
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