So the verdict came out.. and i guess it was a mixed package.. I was very happy that Juno won the best original screenplay but I am very disappointed with the selection of no country for old men as the best picture. Don't get me wrong, it was certainly a well directed movie and the character of anton chighur was played with such perfection that Javier Bardem definitely deserved the oscar for best supporting actor. I could even say that the coen brothers deserved the best director award for No Country for Old Men but it did not deserve the honour of best picture because it did not stand for anything. It was a movie about a psychopath, all is well. But the movie does not dwell into the psychopathic mind, nor does it portray what drives a man to insanity. In all honesty, this was a movie about a man who goes around killing people with no reason at all. (forget valid reason).. In my mind, if this movie deserved an oscar for best picture, so did I know what u did last summer.
The story also lacked any moral or ethical dilemmas that, when compared to previous best picture winners of the last decade, does not compare even remotely. Look at the likes of Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind, Crash, The Departed, even Titanic. All these movies offered a story. What No Country offered was gore, violence and utter disregard for human life with absolutely no basis for the cause of violence. In comparison, the other nominees of the year were Atonement, Juno, There will be blood and Michael Clayton. I have yet to see There will be blood, but my gut instinct tells me that it deserved the best picture more than No country. Atonement certainly had a more powerful story that will withstand the test of time. That will move the audience and make them think. No country for old men will certainly have its audience grip their seats but at the end of it.. it is simply a movie.. Atonement, and its predecessors, left behind more than a simple feeling of fright. They left behind a lesson... Hopefully future academy awards will take notice and act upon the fact that Best Picture goes beyond one category.
i have only seen there will be blood. it was a well done movie but i kinda missed the point and was left confused. i guess that is y it did not get the best picture award. still have to see the rest and make a decision as to which was the best movie
ReplyDeleteman! totally agreed. I watched No Country for Old Men, and I love how you described what was wrong with the movie. All I could come up with was "it was a well made movie.. but there wasn't much to the movie". I didn't feel engaged in the story at-all, there was just an all around a lack of "reason" as to why anything happens. And it just felt like it left the movie completely unanswered at the end. I watched There Will Be Blood last night, it has the same intensity as No Country for Old Men, but I felt the characters were developed MUCH better, and it actually told a story. I think it definitely deserved the Oscar over No Country. But they both have the same "feel" to the movies, and the music no There Will Be Blood goes from "omg this is so intense to" ... "wtf why are you playing intense music for no reason" lol. One recent facination I've had was watching the Foreign Film nominees, watched Mongol the other day.. it was interesting, I'll blog about them soon. Some of these movies are AMAZING.. creme de la creme of the world i suppose
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