The Coen brothers 2007 film titled, "No Country for Old Men" was a smash hit when we watched it in our media class last week. The violence and destruction caused when a hunter comes across dead bodies, money and herion in Rio Grande kept our class on the edge of our seats, some people refusing to watch anymore.
The amount of nail biting moments was unreal, with every single member of the class dying to find out more of what happened to each of the characters. It effected us all in seperate ways; some screaming at the gore and some laughing but all of us felt a bit disturbed when we left.
When i was watching the movie, i noted down some key events that i felt added extreme amounts of suspence to the movie.
At the beginning of the film we see a police officer arrest a man, who is then, rightly handcuffed. As the police officer turns his back on the man and sits down at the phone, the man starts to move. For a moment we are unsure of what he is doing, but we then see him move the handcuffs around his legs and over his body to allow the hands to be at his front. He then gets up, and quietly stands behind the officer of the phone. At this moment, we are already hooked on the film and we sense emotion for what is about to happen. The guy then places the handcuffs around the officers neck and pulls him to the fool while chocking him to death. We feel a sense of suspence at this time because even though we only see him get up for a split second, we already feel that something bad is going to happen.
A bit further on in the film, we see the guy with the cowboy hat, who we later find out to be a hunter pulls up to the vans with all the dead people inside. He then comes across a man who is still barely alive with lots of herion in the back of his truck. Suprisingly this appears to be untouched and the man leaves. He starts to walk around the area and we find ourselves on the edge of our seats. He then finds a man under a tree with an eary silence. The suspence builds up here because we feel that something is going to happen, its like a sixth sense to us.
When the police finally find the pile of dead people, they have arrived on horses. As they enter the screen we see a car, still on fire but burning in a way which doesn't look normal. They ride on their horses to the scene where everything happened at the night when the man was chased by the dog in the river. This creates suspense in our watching as we feel that something will happen since the police have been targeted before, we expect them to get hurt again.
We can see that from everything that has happened in the film, in my opinion it is one of the best suspenseful films i have ever watched. The use of darkness and sound effects plus all other elements put together make one heck of a suspenseful, 'sitting on the edge of your seat', film.
The amount of nail biting moments was unreal, with every single member of the class dying to find out more of what happened to each of the characters. It effected us all in seperate ways; some screaming at the gore and some laughing but all of us felt a bit disturbed when we left.
When i was watching the movie, i noted down some key events that i felt added extreme amounts of suspence to the movie.
At the beginning of the film we see a police officer arrest a man, who is then, rightly handcuffed. As the police officer turns his back on the man and sits down at the phone, the man starts to move. For a moment we are unsure of what he is doing, but we then see him move the handcuffs around his legs and over his body to allow the hands to be at his front. He then gets up, and quietly stands behind the officer of the phone. At this moment, we are already hooked on the film and we sense emotion for what is about to happen. The guy then places the handcuffs around the officers neck and pulls him to the fool while chocking him to death. We feel a sense of suspence at this time because even though we only see him get up for a split second, we already feel that something bad is going to happen.
A bit further on in the film, we see the guy with the cowboy hat, who we later find out to be a hunter pulls up to the vans with all the dead people inside. He then comes across a man who is still barely alive with lots of herion in the back of his truck. Suprisingly this appears to be untouched and the man leaves. He starts to walk around the area and we find ourselves on the edge of our seats. He then finds a man under a tree with an eary silence. The suspence builds up here because we feel that something is going to happen, its like a sixth sense to us.
When the police finally find the pile of dead people, they have arrived on horses. As they enter the screen we see a car, still on fire but burning in a way which doesn't look normal. They ride on their horses to the scene where everything happened at the night when the man was chased by the dog in the river. This creates suspense in our watching as we feel that something will happen since the police have been targeted before, we expect them to get hurt again.
We can see that from everything that has happened in the film, in my opinion it is one of the best suspenseful films i have ever watched. The use of darkness and sound effects plus all other elements put together make one heck of a suspenseful, 'sitting on the edge of your seat', film.
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