No Country For Old Men (Film)

I did not think I would enjoy this movie. After seeing previews for it on TV I never really grasped what it was about. I finally was talked into going to it with a friend. I really enjoyed the way the movie was filmed. When Ed Bell (sheriff) sets up the contrast between the old days and the present it hints at the violence that will be shown in the movie. I enjoy Tommy Lee Jones as an actor, one of my favorite movies is Men in Black. Jones was able to keep a collected tone throughout the whole movie. He never acted very surprised at anything Anton (the killer) did. When Anton killed the officer at the beginning I knew it could only get better. The casualness in which Anton killed the officer set him up as a conscienceless killer.
When Llewelyn is out hunting and he stumbles upon the bloody scene of a bad drug deal and the Mexican is asking for water I wish Llewelyn would have just gotten the heck out of there. When he finds the money and takes it home I enjoyed how he hid it under his trailer with his guns. He was like a little kid hiding all his treasures. There is a connection between Llewelyn and Anton, Llewelyn has a conscience while Anton does not. Llewelyn's conscience gets him in trouble when he returns to the place where the Mexican asked for water. He was trying to do a good thing by bringing the Mexican some water but ended up getting in trouble for it.
When Llewelyn realizes he is being tracked by someone he gets worried. If I was Llewelyn and I had the money the first thing I would have done was checked for a tracking device. Llewelyn's luck only gets worse from there.
Through out the entire movie there are indications to how chance can affect someones life. Anton wonders into a gas station in the middle of nowhere and ask the cashier to call a coin, heads or tails. The cashier had chance on his side and Anton left. Another theme in the movie is free-will, Llewelyn did not have to take the money he found but he did. His decision to take the money was his own. It could have been chance that lead him there or it was already destined for him to find the money.
I enjoy the movie very much. I thought Tommy Lee Jones did an excellent job and so did Javier Bardem. Javier did a very good job of playing a conscienceless killer who would go through anything to get what was his. I enjoyed the realness of 1980 that was captured in the film.