Was No Country For Old Men subliminally about the impending decline of the white population?

[MoshpitMazi]

Like beyond all the action and philosophy about mortality, i feel like there’s some slick shots about latinos and whites in this that i may not be fully catching .

People say Anton is a symbol for Death but he can also be a metaphor for Texas and America as a whole since it’s becoming mexiland (that’s ok btw)


don’t mind me tho i’m off a tab


20/10 Movie and top 3 OAT.

 

[skylove4]

I could see this being true

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

Overanalyze flicks, brehs.

 

[Nostalgic]

Personality to me I viewed it as the end of the "Western" gener of Cinema.

 

[Family Lives Matter]

Corny

 

[Biscayne]

Personality to me I viewed it as the end of the "Western" gener of Cinema.

Good catch. Kinda like how The Sopranos kinda detailed the end of the mafia.

 

[Pool_Shark]

Can see your point. Sucks you calling us beans but alright.

Cormac McCarthy writes some non pc books he wrote this one. Not much else to say. Great movie

 

[OnlyFrans]

Good catch. Kinda like how The Sopranos kinda detailed the end of the mafia.

Sopranos was def the last gasp of the mafia/ an allegory of American decline

 

[Professor Emeritus]

That's an interesting thought. Someone wrote a paper called, "The Wild West, 9/11, and Mexicans in Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men", but I can't find a free version to read.

Overanalyze flicks, brehs.

Cormac McCarthy books/movies beg to be overanalyzed. It's a feature, not a bug.

 

[MoshpitMazi]

Can see your point. Sucks you calling us beans but alright.

Cormac McCarthy writes some non pc books he wrote this one. Not much else to say. Great movie

i’ll edit

 

[MoshpitMazi]

Overanalyze flicks, brehs.

i love cinema

 

[Nero Christ]

This scene doesn't really state one side is right or wrong but it does subtly hint at what OP is saying. But it's more to do with old men not comprehending or being able to handle what's coming, and if you want to look at it through the lens of old white men...then yes, it does include racism and xenophobia. Their town is getting younger and diverse with more latinos and progressive types where their (old white men) ideals and cultures aren't shared with.

 

[MajesticLion]

The "dismal tide" scene + the "you can't stop what's coming" scene + the "nature of you" scene


Nothing subliminal about it.

 

[Mike Nasty]

Even if you're right, the old man with cats says it was always fukked up, you just chose to forget the past.

 

[gluvnast]

This movie, at least to me, is clear in stating the transition of an elder generational society that was safer and innocent into a society that is more inviting to unexplainable violence and the presence of evil. Being that the year was 1980 makes this clear of this transition. The 80's was the decade that introduced the crack epidemic, HIV/AIDS, gang migration, and stripped away the view of innocent that America thought of itself as a society. Anton Chigurh was the embodiment of that "evil". Sherriff Ed Tom represent that old society that cannot adapt to this new breed of evil,