There is this boy I sent to the electric chair in Huntsville here a while back. My arrest and my testimony. He killed a fourteen-year-old girl. Papers said it was a crime of passion but he told me there wasn't any passion to it. Told me that he'd been planning to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember. Said if they turned him out he'd do it again. Said he knew he was going to hell. Be there in fifty minutes. 老无所依用一段回忆开场,没有音乐,画面上是凄美的荒芜,空无一人。
No Country For Old Men最耀眼的地方要属它在IMDB上拥有的超高评价,一度排到了第14名,虽然现在的名次有所下滑,不过还是排在《沉默的羔羊》前面。这样的成绩不得不惹人怜爱。听说科恩兄弟是金牌制作人,不过之前一部都没看过。No Country For Old Men看第一遍的时候相当模糊,因为超烂的中文字幕。其实我还是挺佩服那搞字幕的,因为人至少想象力丰富。第二遍去弄了个英文的,舒畅许多。不过也说不上什么好来。
No Country For Old Men中的那种荒芜让我想起《七宗罪》里Kevin大叔看得最后那票。下了六天的雨突然止住了,高压电塔下,只有三个人竖着。这时候开来一辆货运小卡车,反倒害怕起来。No Country For Old Men把这种荒凉发挥到了极致,焊工打猎的时候,连天上的云都是不会飘动的。那个地方似乎只有一个杀手和一个焊工,在街道里放枪也不怕扰民,遇上车祸之后也只能听见警笛声,不是因为警察快到了,而是因为镇子太静了。所以为什么杀手总是能那么轻而易举地找上门来,因为那里只有两个人。
Tommy Lee Jones的角色是用来点题的,虽然戏份不多,不过开场和收尾的都是他,让立意拔高了一层。杀手和焊工可以亲密无间,过上二人世界。老警察却只能苦苦追赶,这样说来,似乎这地方又太大了。多少年前小孩们还可以在街道上嬉戏玩耍,现在可能一不高兴就把玩伴的头给爆了。这里已经不是老人们的时代,他们只能沉浸在回忆中,想想带着警棍就能叱碴风云的美好年代了。