 I just watched this Oscar winning thriller for the second time. I enjoyed it as much the second go around, but took different things away from it.
I realized it wasn’t really about the drugs, the money, the killer, but about a changing world. I also laughed more than I did the first time. Tommy Lee Jones had some of the best lines, but delivered with such throwaway deadpanning I must have missed the first time.
I still maintain that Javier Bardem got lucky to win that Oscar. Sure, he made a chilling killer. But best supporting actor turn?? I don’t think so. He was so taciturn that all he had to do was deliver a few lines and look menacing the rest of the time. The haircut helped too. But it made me realized that Tom Wilkinson from “Michael Clayton” and Phillip Seymour Hoffman from “Charlie Wilson’s war” gave astounding performances for roles that seemed to me to be much more challenging and demanding.
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