It is as good as they are saying. Except for those who aren’t—but they should be ignored in this case.
After watching the movie myself, I read the tortured attempts by some critics to explain the film to their readers, and a simpler theme came to mind: Death comes to us all, implacable, emotionless, resolute. We can avoid it as we can avoid gravity.
And I couldn’t help but think of Monsieur IOZ in one scene, where a West Texas driver is stopped by Javier Bardem’s psycho character, who has commandeered a police car, and the driver trustingly and unsuspectingly offers himself up for the slaughter. In a sense, a person who would wait so patiently to be killed was already dead.
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i actually thought that the greatest thing about this film was its complete lack of moralism--as well as its complete lack of moral. at the end of the day, it's a film about nothing, and everything that happens therein is senseless. even the deaths that happen are not important. i almost don't even want to say this because the beauty the film achieves is that there is absolutely nothing you can--should?--say about it.
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