No Country for Old Men (original Movie of the Same Name)
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"No Country for Old Men" is the breakthrough work of literary giant Cormac McCarthy. It tells the story of a Vietnam War veteran and a killer hired by a drug dealer in a volcanic canyon on the U. S.-Mexico border. They start a life-or-death struggle for the ownership of two million four hundred thousand U. S. Dollars. The aging police chief is exhausted mentally and physically while investigating drug crimes and murders. He keeps reminiscing about the past and trying to understand this new world where criminal methods and motives are becoming more and more complicated. "It is not a country of old people. Young people are in each other's arms; birds in the trees - the dying generations - sing their own songs." Cormac McCarthy used Yeats's poem as the title. In that wasteland where the old are homeless, everyone is forced to face the same question: How does a person decide in what order to gradually abandon his life?
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