No country for old man

电影开头的那一段说白，即是对标题的解释：
老一辈的警长们通常连※※也不带
有很多人觉得难以置信
吉姆·斯卡布罗就从未带过枪
我说的是年轻的吉姆
卡曼契郡的卡司顿·伯金斯也不愿带枪
我总喜欢听关于这些老前辈的事情
从不想错过一个
因此很难不把自己跟老前辈们作比较
也不禁好奇，他们那时是怎么做到的
我之前送了一个男孩到亨斯维尔
(德州执行死刑犯的地方)坐电椅
我亲自逮捕他、并出庭作证
他杀了一个十四岁的女孩
报纸上写说那是件激情犯罪
但是他告诉我说 根本没有半点激情
他告诉我自从他有记忆以来
他就一直计划着想杀个人
他还说要是放他出来
他还是会去杀人
他也说他知道，他将会下地狱
马上他就能去了
我不明白是什么导致这样
真的不懂

面对一个充满他们无法理解行为的社会，心理上无所依存
Old Man 是指老警察

Old Man循规蹈矩的办事
所以，Old Man也是指长发杀手，在便利店抛硬币放过了店员
也在结尾的时候看到绿灯放心开车，但现在已经不是他们的country，还有闯红灯的车手，所以被撞到很惨

Donnie Darko 的男主角居然就是 背背山 里面的那个女角。

第一反应也是妻子应该被杀了，不过现在想想还真的说不准……

片中有很多精彩的部分，其中最精彩我感觉就是莫斯妻子和杀手在卧室中碰面的情景，莫斯的妻子说：我一看见你就知道你疯了（大概意思）。
至于莫斯的妻子是不是被杀死了，我是看了楼下其他同学的疑问才觉得有这个问题的。当时我第一感据就是她也被杀死了，那个人确实是个疯子！

对这个杀手任何仁慈的想法，都是过于浪漫了。

moss的老婆有没有被杀，始终弄不清楚。
她回家进屋后，发现窗台打开，知道有人闯进屋。从这里可以看出杀手不像平常那样带武器，暴力开锁，进屋杀人。至于后面杀手出来看鞋底，这两点交叉在一起，有点迷糊

片子有多好不好评论，但这个杀手令人印象深刻！

电影中的穿帮镜头: (好电影才有人费劲找)

Anachronisms: When Bell responds to the hotel shooting, a modern Carl's Jr restaurant is seen in the background over his shoulder. Furthermore, Carl's Jr. was not operating in El Paso in 1980. In addition, when he is driving to the motel, as he first hears the shots, a modern day Wendy's sign is seen behind him.

Anachronisms: In the scene at the end of the film where Anton is driving and another car hits him, the license plate on the other car has a current plate on it that includes an image of the space shuttle. This plate was not being used in 1980.

Anachronisms: As Llewelyn enters a first hotel, an Aries or Relient "K car" is visible in the parking lot. These Dodge vehicles premiered in 1981.

Continuity: When Llewelyn finds the transponder, he leaves the suitcase open, yet when he is escaping minutes later, the suitcase is closed when he grabs it.

Anachronisms: In the scene where Anton makes the gas station attendant flip a coin, a rack full of Jack Links beef jerky can be seen in the background. The package is of the modern day design.

Anachronisms: An Aries/Reliant "K-Car" is parked at the Regal Motel, which was not introduced until 1983.

Anachronisms: Just before Anton enters the pharmacy, a modern Wells Fargo bank is seen in the background on the left side. Not only is it a modern sign, but Wells Fargo didn't operate in Texas in 1980.

Anachronisms: In the scene where Anton is chasing Llewelyn through the streets at night, a modern day Dominos Pizza sign can be seen in the background.

Anachronisms: The Dodge Ramcharger driven by Anton Chigurh is of a model year later than the setting of the movie. The movie is supposed to be about 1980 but the vehicle is between 1986 and 1989.

Anachronisms: The opening scene of the police car features an 1988 Chevrolet Caprice and not a 1980 (or earlier). There are numerous late 80's Caprices in the film - all too new for the setting of 1980.

Anachronisms: The glass milk bottle that Anton and later Sheriff Bell drink from is from Promised Land Dairy in Floresville, TX. This company did not exist until 1987.

Anachronisms: Area code 210 appears on Llewelyn's phone bill, however this area code wasn't created until 1992.

Anachronisms: When Anton goes into Mike Zoss Pharmacy, you can see a bottle of Prednisone on the shelf. This bottle was manufactured by generic drug company Watson, which wasn't established until 1984.

Anachronisms: When Llewelyn Moss is talking to the lady by the pool, there is a Brown 2000-up GMC Tahoe in the drive-through in the background. It also disappears between the takes.

Anachronisms: The $100 bills in the satchel have the signature of Treasury secretary Nicholas Brady. $100 bills with his signature were not printed until 1989. The newest possible $100 bills circulating in 1980 would be Series 1977 bearing the signature of secretary Werner Blumenthal.

Anachronisms: When Chigurh enters Llewelyn's trailer and takes the milk from the fridge, you can see a bottle of Dawn Dish Detergent using the current logo.

Factual errors: Several times the air device punches out lock cylinders, after which the door is pushed open. Actually the lock merely prevents the bolt from being withdrawn, it would still be necessary to reach inside the lock to slide the bolt in order to open the door.

Anachronisms: In the gas station scene, when Anton places the empty peanut wrapper on the counter, you can see the nutrition information on the label. This information was not on food wrappers in 1980.

Anachronisms: The weapon Moss picks up in the drug dealers truck is a Heckler and Koch SP89, so named because it was introduced to the American market in 1989. It was also a unique variation and was not sold in that form outside the US but modified specifically to conform with US gun laws.

Anachronisms: In the scene where Llewelyn calls Carla Jean from a rotary bank of GTE pay-phones, there is a clearly visible graffiti tag above the phone in silver ink. Not only would this kind of graffiti be hugely unlikely in Texas in 1980, but the tag is dated "06".

Anachronisms: In each hotel, modern models of smoke and heat detectors are visible on the ceilings.

Anachronisms: The ambulance used outside the hotel scene has modern multi-flash strobe lights. Those type of lights were not introduced until the mid 1990's.

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When the American border guard asks Llewelyn what outfit he was in Vietnam, the answer is "12th Infantry Battalion." This answer wouldn't make any sense to anyone familiar with how the army is organized and in fact would indicate that Llewelyn had never been in the army. (Every infantry regiment has ad-hoc numbered battalions. No regiment has as many as 12.) An infantry soldier would identify his unit by company and regiment, or just by regiment.

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Just after Chigurh lights the car afire outside the pharmacy, a man walks past the obviously burning car with no reaction at all.

Anachronisms: The gray/blue Dodge 4x4 at the shoot-out is at least an 1982 (tail light design was changed in '82), and more likely an 83 or 84. Also the wheels on that truck weren't introduced until the mid 80s.

Anachronisms: As Chigurh walks through the pharmacy, away from the flaming car, a Tempur-Pedic advertisement is visible to the far left, through a window. The original Tempur-Pedic product was invented in 1983.

Factual errors: It would be impossible to silence/suppress the type of semi-automatic shotgun Chigurh uses throughout the movie the way it is silenced in the movie. First of all, it would be impossible to do with the buckshot he uses throughout the movie. The buckshot would strike the internal components of the silencer on its way out. A slug would have to be used and even then it would still be very loud due to the large bore size.

Factual errors: As every force has an equal and opposite force (even compressed air), whenever the button is pressed to fire the air weapon there should be a recoil... and yet, there isn't one.

Anachronisms: In the shoot-out aftermath seen, the Ford Bronco has a FORD logo on the grill, meaning the truck is a 1983 -- 1986 model. In 1980, Bronco's had F O R D in chrome letters on the hood.

Anachronisms: Outside of the motel after Moss is killed there is a modern day EMS unit (ambulance) in the background

今天看到一份旧北京青年报评论，好像是2月24号的。误把Sailing to Byzantium归于英年早逝的浪漫主义诗人济慈名下了。

John Keats，1795-1821——济慈
William Butler Yeats，1865-1939——叶芝

Sailing   to   Byzantium  
   
  I  
   
  That   is   no   country   for   old   men.   The   young  
  In   one   another's   arms,   birds   in   the   trees  
  ---   Those   dying   generations   ---   at   their   song,  
  The   salmon-falls,   the   mackerel-crowded   seas,  
  Fish,   flesh,   or   fowl,   commend   all   summer   long  
  Whatever   is   begotten,   born,   and   dies.  
  Caught   in   that   sensual   music   all   neglect  
  Monuments   of   unageing   intellect.  
   
  II  
   
  An   aged   man   is   but   a   paltry   thing,  
  A   tattered   coat   upon   a   stick,   unless  
  Soul   clap   its   hands   and   sing,   and   louder   sing  
  For   every   tatter   in   its   mortal   dress,  
  Nor   is   there   singing   school   but   studying  
  Monuments   of   its   own   magnificence;  
  And   therefore   I   have   sailed   the   seas   and   come  
  To   the   holy   city   of   Byzantium.  
   
  III  
   
  O   sages   standing   in   God's   holy   fire  
  As   in   the   gold   mosaic   of   a   wall，  
  Come   from   the   holy   fire,   perne   in   a   gyre,  
  And   be   the   singing-masters   of   my   soul.  
  Consume   my   heart   away;   sick   with   desire  
  And   fastened   to   a   dying   animal  
  It   knows   not   what   it   is;   and   gather   me  
  Into   the   artifice   of   eternity.  
   
  IV  
   
  Once   out   of   nature   I   shall   never   take  
  My   bodily   form   from   any   natural   thing,  
  But   such   a   form   as   Grecian   goldsmiths   make  
  Of   hammered   gold   and   gold   enamelling  
  To   keep   a   drowsy   Emperor   awake;  
  Or   set   upon   a   golden   bough   to   sing  
  To   lords   and   ladies   of   Byzantium  
  Of   what   is   past,   or   passing,   or   to   come.   

驶向拜占庭  
   
  [英国]叶芝  
   
  傅浩   译   1927年  
   
  一  
   
  那绝非老年人适宜之乡。青年人  
  互相拥抱着，树林中的鸟雀  
  ——那些濒死的世代——在歌吟，  
  鲑鱼回游的瀑布，鲭鱼麋集的海河，  
  水族、走兽、飞禽，整夏都在赞颂  
  萌发、出生和死亡的一切。  
  它们都沉溺于那肉感的音乐  
  而忽视了不朽的理性的杰作。  
   
  二  
   
  一个老人不过是无用的东西，  
  象一根竹竿上的破旧衣裳。  
  除非灵魂拍手歌唱，在凡胎肉体里  
  更高声地为每一件破旧衣裳歌唱，  
  而且没有一所歌唱学校不研习  
  自己的辉煌的不朽乐章；  
  因此我扬帆驶过波涛万顷，  
  来到这神圣之城拜占庭。  
   
  三  
   
  呵，伫立在上帝的圣火之中  
  一如在金镶壁画中的圣贤们，  
  走出圣火来吧，在旋锥中转动，  
  来教导我的灵魂练习歌吟。  
  耗尽我的心吧；它思欲成病，  
  紧附于一只垂死的动物肉身，  
  迷失了本性，请把我收集  
  到那永恒不朽的技艺里。  
   
  四  
   
  一旦超脱自然，我将绝不再采用  
  任何自然物做我身体的外形，  
  而只要那种古希腊金匠运用  
  鎏金和镀金法制作的完美造型，  
  以使睡意昏沉的皇帝保持清醒；  
  或栖止在一根金色的枝头唱吟，  
  把过去，现在，或将来的事情  
  唱给拜占庭的诸候和贵妇们听。  
   
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------  
   
  驶向拜占廷  
   
  [英国]叶芝  
   
  查良铮   译  
   
  那不是老年人的国度。青年人    
  在互相拥抱；那垂死的世代，    
  树上的鸟，正从事他们的歌唱；    
  鱼的瀑布，青花鱼充塞的大海，    
  鱼、兽或鸟，一整个夏天在赞扬    
  凡是诞生和死亡的一切存在。    
  沉溺于那感官的音乐，个个都疏忽    
  万古长青的理性的纪念物。    
   
  一个衰颓的老人只是个废物，    
  是件破外衣支在一根木棍上，    
  除非灵魂拍手作歌，为了它的    
  皮囊的每个裂绽唱得更响亮；    
  可是没有教唱的学校，而只有    
  研究纪念物上记载的它的辉煌，    
  因此我就远渡重洋而来到    
  拜占庭的神圣的城堡。    
   
  哦，智者们！立于上帝的神火中，    
  好像是壁画上嵌金的雕饰，    
  从神火中走出来吧，旋转当空，    
  请为我的灵魂作歌唱的教师。    
  把我的心烧尽，它被绑在一个    
  垂死的肉身上，为欲望所腐蚀，    
  已不知它原来是什么了；请尽快    
  把我采集进永恒的艺术安排。    
   
  一旦脱离自然界，我就不再从    
  任何自然物体取得我的形状，    
  而只要希腊的金匠用金釉    
  和锤打的金子所制作的式样，    
  供给瞌睡的皇帝保持清醒；    
  或者就镶在金树枝上歌唱    
  一切过去、现在和未来的事情    
  给拜占庭的贵族和夫人听。

修正一下我原来的看法。 Llewelyn Moss应该也是“Old Man”，老汤是个观察者和故事的叙述人，目前个人对这个故事的理解是这样：

在荆棘密布的社会中生存是不容易的，早期的西部有它自然的法则，那里的人也有自己的行为模式。可以这么说，没有完全的正义。但是所谓“盗亦有道”钱是人人想要的！至于怎么得到，用什么样的手段，以及到什么程度，还是有它的底线的。

但是，现在的社会变化了。哪里还有什么道义、规矩可循呢？这是一个令人绝望的黑暗时代。

这个故事如果Moss不是遵循了原来的“西部法则”——不去给那些个毒贩送水那么后面的一切也就可能不会发生。当然，你可以说追踪者用那个侦测器也一样可以找到他，所以后面的一切仍然会发生，我也无可辩驳。

这则故事告诉我们——得了便宜莫要卖乖，捞到外财除了要低调外还要仔细检查，然后尽管洗干净——墨西哥是对的，但是中间出了不少差错...

我认为，Moss老婆肯定被杀了。
Anton Chigurh有自己的行为模式和准则，是比较疯狂，但是也有不完全可预料的地方——比如他打那只乌鸦（顺便说说Javier Bardem的《深海长眠》值得一看！！）

Anton不会是老汤的潜意识，因为找钱的雇主和老汤不会有瓜葛，而Anton后来杀死的来找钱的雇佣者和雇主。——个人认为，那个会计也被宰杀了。

[花生 编辑于 2008-03-10 11:46]

[2008-03-10 12:00 补充如下]

猜想Anton的原则是凡是见过他面目而又知道其真实身份的人，都得死。

追查他的※※※※，在医院里和Moss对话：
“You see him，and you still alive？hehe!”

Anton杀死找这笔钱的雇主，会计问他
“Are you going to kill me？”
Anton回答：“It depends..”
紧接着他又问“Do you see me？”预示着接下来会发生的事

最后车祸时没杀那两个小孩，主要因为1）身份没有暴露，而且他2）受伤较重现场杀不了且3）没时间，再有他有他4）原则。

海报，我最喜欢的一张

你没有注意到一开始, 菜鸟警察曾经打电话汇报抓到一个带气罐子的怪人. 这让老警察把杀手与这件事串起来.

菜鸟警察与第一个受害者遇害的时候, 牛仔还在打猎, 根本没有卷入此事. 跟老警察就更加不沾边了.

有人说，贾维尔·巴登这个杀手，是这个世纪以来杀手这个电影角色里，最成功的。

这话可能有点主观，不过不算过分。

你看他非常冷静，让我想起《针眼》里那个德国间谍，下手也很冷静，而且有洁癖。他杀人的时候，遇到血液，体液喷出来，居然也会呕吐。

小时候，很崇拜我的美术老师，那个矮胖的北京老太太，在宣纸上作画时，会时不时地在小水碟或墨盒里粘一下，墨盒、水盒总是那么干净。她却说，她在西安见到一位高手，老先生画了一下午，桌面上干干净净的。

是不是每一个厉害的杀手，都有洁癖？

我想是的。对工作流程很熟悉的，画家也好，厨师也好，包括杀手，活儿干得漂亮，不拖泥带水，反反复复，这样的人，多半有点洁癖。

警长进门的时候，杀手应该在另外隔壁的房间，有个特写是车灯光透过钥匙孔射进来，说明不是假设或者臆想。

女拳击手实际是Eastwood的化身，他把她杀死后只好消失了。Morgan Freeman实际是Eastwood疏远的女儿的化身，最后他给那个不知道在哪里的女儿说话，实际是自己给自己说话。

可林德意思特务的那年那个片儿我也没看懂，女拳击手那个。