No Country For Old Men Draft

Pearl Luna

English 1301

Dr. Childs

12/1/2012

                                                              
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            No Country for Old Men is a mind blowing film that gives corner turning thrills and will leave you thoughtful about the each character throughout. This movie presents the troubles in the life of the characters when they are strayed off their course of means. The characters run from their problems in the movie, they run from their deaths. If this is really true, then the characters that died would have been smart enough not to make careless mistakes. In the movie, it seems that their careless mistakes are from their efforts to avoid death, but, some will come to find that their mistakes come from their greed and their choices of foolishness.

            Llewellyn Moss, the veteran of the Vietnam War, mumbles “hold still” as he trains his eye piece on the prize that he is hunting. He shoots, but does he miss? He then proceeds to follow the trail of blood that leads him to the most foolish decision in his time that has set his fate in; he walks in to a drug trade gone to hell. Upon finding the wreck of ghostly cars and drugs, Llewellyn discovers a shot down Mexican guy in his truck, still alive but hardly. He questions the guy, but the man just sits there and asks for water. Llewellyn doesn’t give up that easy. No, not a man of war, never! He questions himself about the loot, and if there is any. Where would the last man standing hide himself, where would you go if you were carrying blood money of over a million dollars? The foreshadowing about his greed is obvious throughout the movie as it shows Llewellyn finding the last man standing, Llewellyn is later found in a hotel dead in his tracks hiding from the person that was trying to take over the greed.

            Anton Chigurh is a merciless undertaker that will have you running home from a Vietnam War if he was on the opposing side. Being against the hunter always calls for a great run when you are being hunted.  Like Llewellyn, he is being hunted by Chigurh and his good old crazy motivational self, motivated both by the money and blood. In the scene where he strangles the police officer, it is shown on the screen that he smirks just a bit. His satisfaction of someone in pain and bleeding comes back to him and haunts him as he is the one bleeding with a shot gun wound to the leg. Anton is a man that feels no pain or has no feelings, so why does he need a shot to numb his leg from the pain. Would he have cried out in pain himself if he were to dig in and take the bullets out without having to numb his pain like he numbed all the other characters of their pain. Anton grimaces at the shotgun wound as he tries to take his boots off and tries to evade the blood and the pain from the damage of his upper thigh. Chigurh is motivated by the blood the most, his one awful decision to be motivated by, gets him shot in the leg all just to snatch away the money, or the greed, from Llewellyn's hands.

 

 

 

   

In the world of My Neighbor Totoro, Giri and Ninjo affects the movie in different perspectives of the two girls, mei and satsuki. It's a movie of childhood as well as adulthood in life, and in fantasy. The most important transition in the world is, transitioning from a child to an adult. This movie uncaps the unimaginable ways that bend the rules of reality to make you understand the ways a person can change their look on life and its understandings. Totoro is a character that will make you want to be a child again, to escape the adult world and relive your childhood days forever.

Adults in society are trained in ways to be the best and do your greatest everyday at work. Being accepted is the most awarding thing for an adult in the workforce and in society, the pressure of being accepted makes people work harder, wanting great things for them in the near future. The term Giri comes from Japanese language, a term used for adults. Giri means socially intimate, you are connected socially and adult wise. Giri is the ways you should act when your an adult, if you do not then being socially accepted should not be on your list, so grow up fast or things will not come as easy for you.

Children have imaginations that expand so widely, its hard not to join in on the fun. As a child we are all gullible, we hear things and we immediately listen and do as we are told or believe what we are told. Ninjo is also a Japanese term from the language. The term is meant as natural feelings, more like children, they have natural feelings about things. Some children do not understand what is being said or being done, they do not know how to react to certain things in life, they don't know how it is to be grown up. Some things may seem otherworldly to them when adulthood is being explained, they do not understand just yet, so they are afraid yet not connected to the whole emotional side of adulthood.

Giri and Ninjo are both the opposite of the other, what one does it completely reinforces the other. Giri is being all about being an adult, and Ninjo is all about expressing yourself and getting into an adventure. Satsuki and Mei are both the opposite at some point, but their lives start to change when their mother is in the hospital. The event makes Mei question what Giri is like, and it makes Satsuki question what Giri is like when they meet Totoro. Mei is seen as adventurous, not a care in the world, as if shes completely oblivious to what is happening to her mom. She doesn't want to understand towards the part when Satsuki tells her about the news of her mom being ill once again in the hospital, she doesn't want to hear it because the thought of losing her mother scares her. Thats where Totoro comes in and makes things seem alright, he makes things seem better for her. Totoro is like her playground friend that will make her forget, something that she can talk to.

Satsuki in the movie is making her transition into the young woman she can be. Shes out making friends, including Totoro, has somewhat of a crush on Kanta, and is acting like a mother to Mei. She makes food for the family and acts as if everything will be alright. Her whole view on life changes when she actually sees Totoro for the first time at the bus stop. She offers Totoro her fathers umbrella because it is raining, she doesn't believe she sees Totoro, she lets her Giri guard down and believes for those moments that she is with Totoro and her sister that she still has a part of Ninjo inside of her.