The Coen Brothers' Oscar winning film No Country For Old Men was, when watched with my class, a hit with my peers and myself. The Content was both Gruesome and Gorey but was highly suspenseful the entire way through. Our teacher Annabel asked us to think about suspense as we watched, I felt that it was perfectly executed throughout.
My first example of a suspenseful moment in the movie was when Llewelyn Moss was alone in the big empty nothingness, accompanied by silence, after having found the dead bodies of dogs, Mexican drug dealers and $20,000,000 in a suitcase. It was suspenseful as we as an audience did not know what he was going to do next.
My Seccond example of a suspenseful moment in the movie was when Llewelyn went back to the scene in the middle of the night to give the barely surviving Mexican water we can see that he is clearly worried of being seen and followed so is constantly looking back and over his shoulder in order to see if anyone is approaching. Just this simple move alone creates suspense for the viewer as we begin to become paranoid with him and feel anxious for his safety.
My Third and final example of a suspenseful moment in the movie was when Llewelyn was trying to reload his gun to kill the agressive dog chasing him. This is suspenseful as the dog is approaching fast and for a seccond we think it may get him but he manages to cock the pistol just in time to shoot the dog before he is shredded to bits by the wrath of its teeth.
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