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I've only watched the movie. But after having watched it, I facetiously recommend that you only watch it if you are currently happy. Because damn, is it just the biggest fucking downer. It will make you more depressed after having watched it. So if you watch it while already depressed, I can't imagine the depths it will bring you to.

It's a good movie, and I'm sure a good book (consider it thrown on the backlog), but damn, so effectively bleak.

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The movie does away with the ambiguity at the end of the book, in an effort to have a vaguely "happy ending."

The best adaption of McCarthy's work to the screen is No Country For Old Men. The Coen brothers seem to "get" McCarthy better than others.

Interestingly Josh Brolin in No Country for Old Men looks alot like Cormac McCarthy around the same age. [1][2][3]

Coen brothers still make movies with real people and brought this world to life in an authentic way.

[Anton vs the "We can't give out no information" lady](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WLA81q9ok0) I love Coen movies with regular people like this. The lady is hilarious and it is one of the only people that Anton didn't take out.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cormac_McCarthy#/media/File:Co...

[2] https://www.slashfilm.com/img/gallery/how-quentin-tarantino-...

[3] https://twitter.com/mdbell79/status/1263644096385564673

I've watched that one too. That one has a sort of resigned feeling to it. Situations are over, but nothing is really resolved. It's kind of like a serious version of Burn After Reading. Here are these various lives and stories and the situation that has intertwined them. Once the situation is has passed, everyone is affected in different ways, but nothing really ends.

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