is a great, great movie.

Within about 5 or 10 min of movie, I just had this happy feeling. I asked the folks with me later and they said the felt it too. I just knew the film was going to be good. One identified as the feeling when you know you can just be taken in by a movie, that you're in the director's hands and you're willing to go wherever they take you.

The feeling doesn't come from the subject matter which very violent. It's the storytelling. Fantastic use of sound. Great use of Detail. It's the feeling that the directors are making right choice after right choice. The beginning of the movie makes you feel not that you're watching a movie about West Texas but that you are there in West Texas.

I didn't know anything about the story other than what I saw in the trailer and I avoided all reviews about it. I had read some other books by Cormac McCarthy and really enjoyed them, but they were more westerns than this movie which plotwise could a very standard thriller, but in the hands of the Coens and McCarthy is something very special.


Also I just learned something I didn't know, the Coen Brothers longtime editor, Roderick Jaynes, is a psuedonym for Joel and Ethan.