One thing I do like from this movie is its capability of creating round characters. Compared to other movies in which we can guess who will win from the first 15 minutes of the movie, No Country of Old Men is way much stronger. It just has the so-called round character as my Prose Fiction professor used to say.
By round character I mean the character that we can’t hardly decide whether he/she is good or bad. In the case of No Country for the Old Men, I can see clearly the character roundness from the semi-protagonistic character called Llewelyn (Josh Brolin). At first, we hate Llewelyn because he does not help a dying man who covets water. I firstly said to myself, ‘Oh, this must be the bad guy.’ Continue reading »

