This year’s awards have been completely in line with the great movies of the past. No Country for Old Men isn’t exactly what you might consider romantic, although the trailer park relationship between the characters left me wondering about abuse and loyalty to your captor. Unexplored and unexpressed fully, the movie treated the characters more as heroes vs. heroes without any clear cut noble quest beyond greed and survival. Perhaps romance didn’t have a place in this movie, one that is sure to become a classic exploration of our times. Unlike BrokeBack Mountain, the story moves us to detest the weakness of our protectors and applaud the raw violence that we must sometimes participate in when fighting for our very own survival. The romance and the passion were there, but the fire was definitely not fueled by love.
Here’s an article exploring how Romantic Movies can be about passion. You might want to compare themes. No Country calls for some different ideas about ourselves, and that is what makes romantic movies so great.
