63\u00a0 bar steep rise 29.64 6mph N dew-point 58\u00a0 Summer night<\/p>\n
Last Quarter of the Flower Moon<\/p>\n
As always, the movies come later up here above 694, inside the pick-up section of the Minneapolis metro.\u00a0 Tonight it was “No Country For Old Men.”\u00a0 This movie is an instant classic according to many reviews.<\/p>\n
Talk about an oxymoron.\u00a0 An instant classic.\u00a0 That’s where the frisson is, yes, but I have a suspicion that just beyond the irony of such a juxtaposition lies a realm in which critics believe in their capacity to know a classic when they see one, even if it has only six months of theatre runs under its belt.\u00a0 I don’t believe in such a capacity; but, I do believe it is of the nature of criticism to imagine its existence.<\/p>\n
This is a fine movie.\u00a0 It has a story line that takes you by misdirection.\u00a0 As the movie unwinds into its fullness, the obvious assumption is that it is a mystery, a how will they catch him yarn.\u00a0 Anton Chigurh and his compressed air weapon, used in stock-yards for killing live stock, cuts a wide lane of violence down the center of the screen.\u00a0 The opening scene shows the remains of a drug deal that has killed at least eight people.<\/p>\n
The plot seems to follow the results of this shoot out when it really follows Sheriff Bell, Sheriff of Terrel County in west Texas.\u00a0 His story is a meditation on aging and on the violent criminal action that follows in the wake of the international drug trade.\u00a0\u00a0 He is an intelligent, compassionate man bewildered by crime he no longer understands.\u00a0 In the final scene, which took me by surprise, he recount two dreams about his father.<\/p>\n
A classic?\u00a0 Hell, I don’t know.\u00a0 I’m not even sure the movies that film historians claim are classics are classics.\u00a0 I feel more confident in defining literary classics.\u00a0 There I feel I know one when I see one.\u00a0 With movies?\u00a0 Difficult.\u00a0 Casablanca?\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 Singing in the Rain?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Wizard of Oz?\u00a0 Maybe.\u00a0 Birds?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Too sleepy to explain.\u00a0 This movie a classic?\u00a0 Probably not.\u00a0 But it is a damned fine movie anyhow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
63\u00a0 bar steep rise 29.64 6mph N dew-point 58\u00a0 Summer night Last Quarter of the Flower Moon As always, the movies come later up here above 694, inside the pick-up section of the Minneapolis metro.\u00a0 Tonight it was “No Country For Old Men.”\u00a0 This movie is an instant classic according to many reviews. Talk about … Continue reading An Instant Classic<\/span>