It’s hard getting old. There’s the usual complaints: things like weakening bodies, fading memories, and the looming shadow of death, but getting old also means seeing things change. McDonald’s starts selling breakfast all day, they make the capes for LEGO figures out of cloth instead of paper, and everyone and their grandma wants you to scan a QR code to access their business even though I don’t have my phone on me and why can’t I just talk to a real human to sort out my order I just don’t get-wait, what was I talking about? Well, anyways, you see things change as you get older and you may not like what you see, especially if you’re an aging Sheriff tracking an increasingly violent game of cat and mouse being played between an unassuming everyman on the run with stolen drug money and a murderous hit man hired to kill him and retrieve the illicit cash. At that point you’re living in No Country for Old Men, a 2007 neo-western directed by the Coen brothers and based on the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name, and brother, you do not want to be living in that movie. That’s because No Country is dark, somber, and violent, but if you can watch the film rather than inhabit it, you’ll enjoy a peerless crime drama with career-defining performances from the likes of Javier Bardem and Tommy Lee Jones. I honestly can’t say enough good things about No Country for Old Men; it’s tense, brilliantly shot, perfectly paced, and endlessly thought-provoking, and it also happens to be Elliot’s favorite movie, so get ready for some truly breathless stuttering monologues about the deconstructionist roots of anti-romanticism in neo-westerns or whatever. Nathan’s there too, I think. Lace up your cowboy boots and check the money for a transponder and let’s hit the road!

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