MovieChat Forums > Murphy's Romance (1986) Discussion > Murphy's Romance and No Country for Old ...

Murphy's Romance and No Country for Old Men


Murphy's Romance and No Country for Old Men

I have recently posted this on the No Country for Old Men board.


I have just watched NCOM for about the fourth time. The world the Sheriffs inhabit is so dystopian, they have just about given up on it.

Yet there are some poor folks, victims of cruelty, who don't seem to get it, they are easy convenient prey, even if not the major prey, of the drug gangs, and hit men. Like the passing motorists, the chicken trucker, the receptionists.

I realized something I missed about NCOM the first couple of times. It is set in 1980, not 2006 when it was made. A quarter of a century before.

I have seen and appreciated a couple of other films made and set in the 1980s, and their location is the south-western USA. "Can't Buy Me Love", "Murphy's Romance" are two examples. "Murphy" in particular, I saw it more recently and was struck by the small-town good-life atmosphere it evoked, yet it's in south-central Arizona at practically the same time as NCOM.

All these films are a plausible depiction of life in these places, and above all, in the worlds, or underworlds, the people inhabit. So innocent people who don't realize the underworld is alongside them, get hurt.


I loved the way MR evoked small-town USA, among all its other virtues.

reply

Ok and?

reply

Somebody really thinks his posts are important...

reply