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1. No Country for Old Men, the Poem
The movie title (or the novel, from which the movie adapted) is from WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS’s poem, “Sailing to Byzantium.” The poem starts with the famous phrase, “That is no country for old men.” The speaker of the poem is an “old man.” He criticizes the current generation as being captured by the desire of the flesh and never care about noble values. The old man points out, “that is no country for old men.”
2. The Title and the Movie
Without knowing that the movie title is from the poem, everyone would think that the movie is about humanism or elderly welfare. But the movie is surprisingly a thriller, in which a veteran hunter is chased by a psychopath killer and murdered. This confusing title makes the audience keep thinking about how the title is related to the movie’s contents. The director intentionally gave the film a very ambiguous name to make the audience dig into its meanings after the show.
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