No Country for Old Men (DVD, 2008)

This movie is great in every respect. Storytelling, cinematography, characters, sound, costume, building up suspense like a can of Reddi Whip. I watched this movie twice, and I think only the second time around was I able to confirm some of my theories regarding the movie. Its one of those movies that really gets in your head long after the credits are done rolling. At the end of the movie, you are left wondering who was the real protagonist of this story, if there was any at all. Like that narrator says near the end of the film, we each like to believe we are the main character of God's created story- when in truth, we have no effect- through good or evil, on the greater picture- it doesn't get worse or better, it just goes on as it always does...so then what, in effect, is the purpose of our existence? And the wonderful irony of the two characters caught in similar situations- one in the middle of the movie, one near the end. Its those little things like that which make this movie a good one to own, because each time you watch it, you hear things, and interpret things a little bit clearer.

And all the characters are memorable and so unique from each other. You will never see a page-boy hair cut the same after this movie!