No Country For Old Man - Daniel Wright

No Country For Old Man

The opening scene starts off with a "sheriff" as he says narrating about him, talking about the past and the present of his life. From this narration we can gather that the film will revolve around police officers and murder. The opening clips are shots of the landscape, more than likely where he either currently works or lives, using these landscape clips it allows the audience to focus on the narration rather than any action which could of been happening instead.

The officer takes a what seems to be an oxygen tank from the arrested suspects car. This creates an Enigma as the audience and the police officer both do not know what it was or is used for and why. We later find out what it could be used for but we don't know if it is really the intended purpose of the object.

During the scene where the officer is on the phone he is framed in the center of the camera and has a medium close up shot on his face, very slowly tracking in towards his face. This is so we can see what the arrested male is currently doing behind him. This is a form of dramatic irony as we know that the character has managed to bring his handcuffs around to his front and he starts walking towards the officer. We know from that point onward what the intention of the arrested male will be as it turns very dramatically to the officer being strangled by the cuffs in which the arrested male is wearing.

This then conveys to the audience that this is the antagonist of the film and the one we should hate and dislike. This is then further demonstrated as he kills another man with the oxygen tank which was an unexplained object before hand until now.