This year at the Oscars there were two well-praised movies that stood out that shared similar styles. These are No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood. Comparing the two by looking at their success and the similar properties that helped them get there, I would like to write a critical essay about what their popularity says about our culture.
Both films exhibit dark violent moods that seem to appeal to the audience. They both have main characters whose priorities lie in obtaining and maintaining power. In addition family, money, and religion/philosophy are all factors that influence each movie and each character in the movie. Finally both movies end abruptly. There are no fairy tale endings in either the movies. Instead there is a finality in which both movies seem to end almost exactly as they started, nothing really resolved and quite a few people dead.
Using these defining characteristics as context, what do these movies say about our society?
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