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KvP:

--- Quote from: Blue Kitty on 08 Dec 2007, 22:40 ---One thing that I didn't like was the lack of music

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I thought it was an asset. Pulls you in, makes you listen to what you would normally be ignoring. Makes the hotel scenes that much more tense.

TheFuriousWombat:
I loved the lack of music. The fact that the movie was incredibly tense without relying upon music to establish atmosphere is a testament to the Coens' and Deakins' talent I think.

De_El:
I saw it again yesterday. It definitely didn't seem as humorless as it did the first time around.  The lack of music was definitely a style point, heightened your awareness of little details in the movie and in general gave it more punch. The movie is also really good when it conveys all sorts of information without dialogue. It's like a big hunk of emotion that you sort of have to digest yourself.

That's kind of how the movie feels: Javier Bardem with his weird haircut walks up to you and punches you in the face a bunch of times until your nose breaks, then you fall back and he just stands over you glowering with those giant eyes, eyes surrounded by rings that make it look like he hasn't slept the whole span of the movie, and you're totally bewildered and unsure of what to do, until he just sorta walks away and you're still on the ground with a face covered in blood, reeling. Then you wake up.

Johnny C:
Man, I didn't even notice the lack of music until the end credits rolled around. Then I realised it.

So good. I'm seeing it again on Saturday.

tomart:
I saw it with my son the movie kid, and we both loved it and want to see it again, but we have a weird disagreement:

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ok, don't read this if you haven't seen it!

When the sheriff goes back *alone* to the motel crime scene, and actually enters the room, don't we see Chigurh hiding in a closet? So he's actually got the lethal killing machine bad guy cornered! ...but then he lets him go...?!? If I have that right, then that's a major moment: the sheriff either knows or suspects that Chigurh is still there (came back after everyone left, to find the money stuffed in whatever air vent) but he also knows that he's outmatched, that trying to capture this particular bad guy, he can't do it, he'd die and Chigurh would get away anyway....  MAJOR realization, for him and us - the good guy can't always win...

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