The best movie of the year, and maybe the last few years, has been getting a boatload of critical attention since it's release, and this morning it scored an Oscar nomination for Best Picture of the Year. Cormac McCarthy's bleak novel about the drug war, and the damage it has inflicted on the southern American border, has been turned into a searing portrait by the Coen Brothers. McCarthy's moody, sparse prose has been compared to stories chiseled onto stone, stripped of all pretension and searching for meaning in a conflict without any. The challenge of putting it to film honestly must have been great, but the Coen brothers were up to the task. Chigurh, the most disturbing McCarthy character since Blood Meridian's Judge, is brought to life by Javier Bardem, and the rest of the cast turn in pitch-perfect performances. Hopefully, the publicity brought to the film by the Oscar nomination will encourage more people to see it - the message of the film puts a underappreciated twist into the immigration debate.
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