The Coen brothers Joel and Ethan have delivered some masterpieces in their careers. But none of their films are as exciting and intense as the novel adaptation No Country for Old Men based on Cormac McCarthy. If you have never seen the outstanding thriller with stars like Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem and Tommy Lee Jones, you can catch up on the film on television today.
On TV: That’s what No Country for Old Men is about
In the film’s plot, war veteran Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) finds a suitcase full of money from a failed drug deal in the Texas desert that left several dead. It’s not just Mexicans who are after the money, but also the psychopathic hitman Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem). It starts a merciless game of cat and mouse. The local sheriff Ed Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) can hardly keep up with the piled up bodies.
Watch a German trailer for No Country for Old Men here:
No Country for Old Men – Trailer 2 (German)
No Country for Old Men captivates with incredible tension and surprises
In the first scene, Javier Bardem’s hitman, with his peculiar hairstyle, seems like an absurd joke figure, who then quickly switches to brutal seriousness. Along with a strange code and ice-cold, precise killing methods is here one of the most iconic killers in film history developed.
Especially in the middle part of No Country for Old Men, the chase between Josh Brolin’s protagonist and Bardem’s character develops an unbelievable tension, as the Coens record the repeated encounters between the characters without any musical accompaniment nerve-racking intensity stage.
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The longer the film runs, the more the directing duo moves away from well-known action thriller conventions. Instead, the dry, darkly humorous film surprises with radical twists in the sweaty Texas atmosphere in terms of the course of the otherwise inevitable confrontations in this genre.
This is how No Country for Old Men stands out among all the brilliant images from cinematography legend Roger Deakins philosophical discussion of the nature of violence and a world in flux, in which the living coexist with the dead, imperceptibly swapping places again and again.
On TV and stream: This is how you can watch the thriller
No Country for Old Men runs this Saturday, Saturday April 20th from 10:10 p.m. on ZDFneo. The repeat follows on Sunday night from 1:20 a.m. If you want to catch up on the modern classic, you have a large selection of streaming providers, as No Country for Old Men is part of the catalogs of Netflix, Sky WOW and Paramount+.
This is an updated republication of an article that previously appeared on Moviepilot.