NCFOM and Film Form

• NCFOM - Visual and Audio cues 


  The opening scene uses less conventional visual and audible cues are used to create meaning for the spectator. We see the landscape through establishing shots. The emptiness of the shot creates a eerie atmosphere from the offset, which is overlayed with the narration done by Bell. The monologue looks back on Bell’s younger life, back in “simpler times” . The strong use of visual cues is apparent to an active spectator who can see the barren landscape, connect it to Bell’s monologue about his viewpoint on the new world.
• NCFOM and Coin Toss 


  Gives us an incite to Chigurh’s mind. There is a deeply contrasting yellow smiley face prop in the scene offering a sense of irony to the scene; Chigurh judges the man as unambitious, unadventurous and not an icon of happiness. Chigurh takes an dislike to his conformist lifestyle. This prompts his coin toss game. Visual Cues such as the noose-resembling shapes hanging behind the attendant – foreshadow his potential “hanging” and the random steam roller outside offers a sense of carnage.
• How far do your films opening scenes of your chosen films introduce key messages and ideas?


  Through cinematography - Genre ambiguity - Wide establishing shots of barren landscape make the film seem like a Western, but the costume and appearance of the character of Chigurh immediately disrupts the narrative. Chigurh is dressed in dark blue, providing a direct binary opposition to the western genre
• How far do your films opening scenes of your chosen films introduce key messages and ideas?

  Ed Tom Bell's opening monologue reveals that he is struggling to keep up with this 'new threat' that is the 'New America'. This monologue establishes his struggle with trying to combat this new threat, aswell as the struggle with his own morality.
• How far do your films opening scenes of your chosen films introduce key messages and ideas?

  Dialogue of the Cop - "I've got it all under control" before Chigurh mercilessly kills him - re-occuring motif of "You can't stop whats coming" - life is down to chance, represented through Chigurh's prop of the coin
• How far do your films closing scenes re-affirm the key messages and values of the film?

  Chigurh car crash scene - Chigurh has now himself become a victim of chance.
• How far do your films closing scenes re-affirm the key messages and values of the film?

  Capitalist viewpoint - Two boys at the end greedily arguing over the money Chigurh gives one of them for his shirt - the capitalistic machine of greed continues
• How far do your films closing scenes re-affirm the key messages and values of the film?

  Bell's closing monologue - he has finally admitted he can't keep up with the progressing world - "I'm 20 years older than he ever was"