[No Country for Old Men]
Year:
2008
Type:
Public:
Publisher:
Knopf
Year of publication:
2006
Pages:
320
Moral assessment:
Type: Literature
Nothing inappropriate.
Some morally inappropriate content.
Contains significant sections contrary to faith or morals.
Contains some lurid passages, or presents a general ideological framework that could confuse those without much Christian formation.
Contains several lurid passages, or presents an ideological framework that is contrary or foreign to Christian values.
Explicitly contradicts Catholic faith or morals, or is directed against the Church and its institutions.
Literary quality:
Recommendable:
Transmits values:
Sexual content:
Violent content:
Vulgar or obscene language:
Ideas that contradict Church teaching:
The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators
A Vietnam veteran goes hunting in a desert area of Texas, and discovers several vehicles with bullet holes, half a dozen dead men and one dying, all as a result of a failed exchange of drugs for money. He also finds packages of heroin and a briefcase containing $2.4 million. From this moment on, the violence begins relentlessly until the end. The author is a Pulitzer Prize winner and the Coen brothers win several Oscars for the film. Through suspense and violence the author seems to propose a reflection on the moral state of society; he even mentions abortion and euthanasia.
Author: Fernando Acaso, Spain
Update on: Nov 2021