No Country For Old Men

[mr surveyor]

had it not been for the previous post, I would have never known that the title of the thread was actually the title of a movie.

I don't get out much

[wyntrout]

Beware of guys lugging air tanks with some kind of tool attachment, especially if he points it at you... and never sit in-line with your door's lock set. You had to see the movie.

Wynn

[gunmut]

try reading one of his books sometime; i have read two or three and they are hard to get though but they do make you think....

[Orion]

"...i have read two or three and they are hard to get though..."

Try reading "The Road." It's the only book I have ever read from cover to cover without stopping. I had a hard time not looking ahead to see what was going to happen.

[wyntrout]

Is that the movie The Road as well? That was a depressing movie. if you want a disturbing book, check out One Second After by William R. Forstchen, with a Forward by Newt Gingrich.

http://www.onesecondafter.com/

This is about a VERY possible threat that "The Wall Street Journal warned could shatter our nation"... excerpt from the dust cover. An ElectroMagnetic Pulse (EMP) generated by a relatively low-yield nuclear explosion at an altitude of 200 miles could short-circuit or overload all electronic devices and destroy them within line-of-sight of the explosion. Two or three of these were spaced to effectively cover the U.S.A. and throw us back to almost non-existent-today 1940's technology.

We are totally dependent on electronic communication and all things electronic to keep everything we take for granted running. Imagine no transportation, electricity, water, sewers, refrigeration, medical devices, and distribution of all of this coming to a screeching halt... with hundreds of millions starving and doing anything they can to try to stay alive a little longer. Some people would band together for defense and support, but many more would band together to take advantage of those who couldn't defend themselves or possessions... and food would quickly become non-existent... no distribution... no transportation... and cannibalism could become a way of life for some of the ravenous mobs.

It's a frightening depiction of a very possible future and covers many things most people would not think about. Transportation and distribution are the lifeblood of our country and in the blink of the eye, all of that is destroyed, leaving the mega-cities with a few days food supply at hand... and all of that looted or destroyed as people fight for their lives. Think about 90% casualties within ONE year!

Several of our competitors(China and Russia) and enemies have this technology... Korea and soon Iran... to lob low-yield nukes to an altitude of 200 miles... rocket science for sure, but requiring a lot less precision than getting near a target on the ground. Pakistan could lose control of theirs with Islamic Terrorists vying for control of the country, and Iran could arm the terrorists it supports with this terrifying weapon.

Dang! I get so carried away, but I worked and with trained with our country's most sophisticated and powerful weapons, and I know what EMP can do. We were expected to FLY through an EMP-rich environment as we carried out our mission of striking with these weapons, though in a close-to or on-the ground use, not high-atmospheric burst, trying to limit the effect to the target.

Most of us would become the "local Mom & Pop stores" of food and supplies for roving bands of merciless cutthroats or desperate, starving people who would quickly overwhelm all but the largest well-defended communities away from major population centers. Not a happy prospect, but too possible today.

Wynn

[bigmacque]

I liked the ending, I thought it wrapped up nicely.

You don't really know for sure that Carla Jean was killed, but you have to believe it would have been out of character for Chigura to do otherwise, so it's a good bet she died as well.

The money: I believe the pickup truck full of Mexicans that drove away from the hotel had the money.

The title: kind of like ripley said, a lawman at the end of his run. But I think it was more about realizing that the drug war was a new game, a game for younger men, and his time had come and gone and it was time for him to move on.

[MrToad]

Better start building Faraday cages and store critical electronic devices in them.

FWIW, microwave ovens are pretty well shielded and grounded Faraday cages.

[georgepittenger]

No Country For Old Men is one of my favorite movies as well, based on the Cormac McCarthy novel by the same name. The movie is a fairly faithful adaptation of the novel, and I actually like the movie better in many respects. The movie ends pretty much the way the novel ends -abruptly. A recurring theme in many of the McCarthy novels is the randomness of violence and the inability of the established order to understand and cope with it.

This ^

The movie was good , the book better

I can see how if you didn't read the book , u might be dissatisfied w watching the movie .

Perhaps the same w "The Road " , a terrific book .

I don't find McCarthy a hard read at all . He's has a way w words that few authors do today .

Give his books a try , u may be hooked ..............