No Country For Old Men (2007)
If you are at all familiar with the work of the Coen Brothers, then you know they have this knack for disassembling the human condition through various characters. Often times their characters are quirky, but this is not the case here. No, in fact this is a slow burn and a chilling depiction of what happens when ill-advised decisions take a turn for the worst and there is no redemption at the end of the tunnel. It's friggin' brilliant. No wonder this one won a ton of awards. In the desert, our random protagonist (of sorts) Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon a drug deal gone horribly wrong: bodies everywhere and a truck full of drugs. But he also discovers a case containing a couple of million dollars and he decides to take this so as to improve his life somewhat. Moss isn't an idiot, but he doesn't seem to grasp that he is in way over his head, as sinister forces send a psychopathic hired killer on the trail of the money. Moss desperately tries to stay one step ahead, but ...
