No Country for Old Men was most definitely a suspenseful movie and hard to predict. An element that was prominent was the use of subjective point of view and parallels between different characters. It was used very minimally and subtly, but it was enough to make the viewer feel like they were in the action of the movie. The most effective portrayal of the subjective point of view is when the camera is placed on the dashboard of the car and filming the road.
I think this method of filming is effective in this movie because like the characters driving in the film, you don't really know where they are going or if they are going to find a place to hide or the person they're looking for.
Another way I thought this movie was made more interesting was the parallels between the reflections of Chigurh and Sheriff Bell in the TV in the Moss's trailer. They both sit down on the couch in front of the window, pick up the glass of milk, and there is a shot of both of their reflections in the empty television screen. I thought this showed the idea that they are both looking for Moss, but each for completely different reasons, but it was interesting that they were both shot in the same way as if they were doing the same things for the same reasons? Were there any other parallels between characters that made the movie more interesting?
Another parallel that I found to be interesting is the one between Chigurh and Llewellyn after their shootout in the hotel and in the street, and in other scenes as well. Both men are shown to be stitching themselves up in various scenes, Llewellyn even ends up in the hospital at one point. These two very different men are both injured in their search for the same thing, the death of the other.
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