Al Mohler
Let me just take this opportunity to invite you to read Dr. Al Mohler's blog here.
Read his post dated Monday, Feb. 4. He mentions the book, No Country for Old Men. He not only mentions that book, but quotes a couple of paragraphs from it. I had seen some clips from the movie, but haven't read the book. Maybe Dan the Man can shed some light here, but I was kinda skeered of watching that one, and I like adventure, suspense, and sometimes even horror.
Read his post dated Monday, Feb. 4. He mentions the book, No Country for Old Men. He not only mentions that book, but quotes a couple of paragraphs from it. I had seen some clips from the movie, but haven't read the book. Maybe Dan the Man can shed some light here, but I was kinda skeered of watching that one, and I like adventure, suspense, and sometimes even horror.
Labels: Words of Wisdom
posted by 007 at 2/05/2008 10:44:00 PM
4 Comments:
That blog is very interesting, yet scary to where our country and world are headed..
Thanks for your comment Mr. West. I am still waiting for Dan the Man to chime in. I am reasonably sure that he has seen the movie, "No Country for Old Men."
reasonably sure, to be sure. That is my favorite movie in a long time, and the book was also really good. I'd probably get in trouble with hard core McCarthy fans for saying it, but its my favorite book I've read by him. That quote really made me laugh and think when I read it. didn't make it into the movie though.
McCarthy's fans are actually pretty well spread out over the political and religious spectrum. One reading of his work (I've only read five of his books, but I lean toward this interpretation) is that his books always deal with Original Sin or human depravity. His books are extremely violent, but like Flannery O'Connor, he seems to be decrying the world system rather then exulting in it. Unlike Miss O'Connor he has not openly confirmed this, so multiple interpretations are possible, but really think he's dealing with that.
The title of No Country comes from a poem called Byzantium by WB Yeats which is about aging and coming to terms with the harsh realities of the world. Similarly Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones in the movie) is coming to terms with how evil the world is, and how much the surface of things has changed in this lifetime. The implication, if the poem is taken into account is the realization of the evil in the world is a sort of wisdom that comes with age, a realization of how scarred the world is, rather than an actual moral change.
I think every generation (or at least all the ones I've read books from) seems to think the world has gone to pot since the good old days, which of course were the cynical years of those looking further back at another set of the good old days.
The fact of the fall has wrecked every generation, and while the zeal of youth may hope to make changes the human heart is incapable of fixing its broken nature on its own. Each generation must come to terms with this, and of course the ultimate answer is the gospel.
McCarthy doesn't get to the redemption part (in his fiction at least), but he can sure convey the tension and depravity of the fall in a convincing manner.
I just knew Dan was qualified to give an opinion, as he has not only seen the movie, but has READ THE BOOK. Thanks, Dan. Always a pleasure.
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