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Too bad ‘ No country for old men’ is overrated
— ⛧ (@wydbanx) December 2, 2024
not the best Cormac McCarthy book, it's Blood Meridian
not the best Cormac McCarthy movie, it's The Road
not the best Javier Bardem performance, it's Dune 2
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Blood meridian was a big meh of a book. It's cool if you want an edgy book about nothing to project onto, but it would be even nicer if his flowery prose actually said something.
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I like the judge as a metaphor(?) for Europeans simultaneously bringing chaos, bloodshed, law, and civilized order to the west. Anthropomorphizing documenting and destroying the past and natural world was an interesting concept as well. I also enjoyed the r*pe and genocide.
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Oh so deep. If that's actually what he meant by that character (it isn't) then than book is even worse that i thought.
Do you realize how redundant it would be to make the head of a band of europeans killing natives represent Europeans killing natives? That's not even a metaphor its just the plot lmao.
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The kid and his pals aren't le bwc colonizers. They are humanity encountering a tree that can be cut down and burned or the last living mammoth that can feed your tribe for a month if converted to meat.
I see the judge as a representation of 5000 years of human development bearing down on the west all at once. Hypocrisy of strict defined law and righteousness existing in the minds of educated men vs enrichment, renewal, satiation, survival all found in the freeform violation and consumption of your surroundings. Knowledge sought and gained out of spite for the unknown and unknowable. He makes you find compassion and empathy in the child of a strange enemy you have defeated and then, as you begin to see yourself in that child, he adds its corpse to the mass grave to remind you of what you have chosen to do over and over again.
Their band exists as raw humanity driven into the final untamed corner of the world while the bonds we have made to restrain ourselves press ever onward from the east.
I am admittedly a 95iq midwit but these are my thoughts.
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