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[teawrists]

its raining. the rainboots I bought were shipped a week ago and aren't here yet. Its okay, they might come today.I have to go to french class in a few minutes, I have an exam tomorrow that is not going to be all that fun. But I'll manage, I think. I watched the worst movie last night with my aunt before I drove home. its called No country for old

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[words_of_wisdom]

I found NCFOM interesting from the standpoint of the politics of South Texas. The senselessness of it mirrors the brutality and senselessness of the drug trade, and how it has ravaged the countryside. The fact that the main character doesn't even get his heroic faceoff with the psycho-killer, the fact that drugs and violence pervade life - I don't think most people made the connection, but I definitely did. The border politics were hidden in a package that people are willing to digest, that of a badass, psychotic but philosophical killer. Why people are able to embrace this and not the very real fact of violence and militarization and the dehumanizing politics of informal and formal borders (especially the US-Mexico one) is a little sad to me. But that's what I got out of it. I have to admit I really liked the movie.

Sorry, I probably over-intellectualized the crap out of you with my nonsensical ramblings based on what I have witnessed indirectly in South Texas. My mother is doing her PhD dissertation on border politics and I've been saturated in these concepts for so long that it seems strange not to notice these things and point them out.

[teawrists]

i understand what you are saying and I agree with you. I just think that people can convey things like this in other ways then having a brutal movie where a guy kills a bunch of people and blood is everywhere and he continues to rampage through the country taking peoples cars and killing innocent people. do you really think thats how it really is? i think most of the movie was over done for entertainment purposes..

[eepster]

What I'm saying is that everything there but him already exists there. And maybe the only way to make any sense of it, at least for the Coen brothers, was to place a madman in an already crazy situation. To accentuate the violence, because for some reason people won't listen until they have a larger-than-life personality to enliven an already coarse setting. I like to think of it as an attempt to use an unrealistic villain as the only way to show a real situation. Because it's easier to think there's one random but purpose-driven killer than a system that leads to constant violence. Or maybe they just figured the setting was a perfect place for this psycho?