No Country for Old Men 精彩片段：
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WE COME HERE FROM Georgia. Our family did. Horse and wagon. I pretty much know that for a fact. I know theys a lots of things in a family history that just plain aint so. Any family. The stories gets passed on and the truth gets passed over. As the sayin goes. Which I reckon some would take as meanin that the truth cant compete. But I dont believe that. I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet.
It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt. You cant corrupt it because thats what it is.
Its the thing youre talkin about. Ive heard it compared to the rock — maybe in the bible—and I wouldnt disagree with that. But itll be here even when the rock is gone. Im sure theys people would disagree with that. Quite a few, in fact. But I never could find out what any of them did believe.
You always tried to be available for your social events and I would always go to things like cemetery cleanins of course. That was all right. The women would fix dinner on the ground and of course it was a way of campaignin but you were doin somethin for folks that couldnt do it for theirselves. Well, you could be cynical about it I reckon and say that you just didnt want em comin around at night. But I think it goes deeper than that.
It is community and it is respect, of course, but the dead have more claims on you than what you might want to admit or even what you might know about and them claims can be very strong indeed. Very strong indeed. You get the feelin they just dont want to turn loose. So any little thing helps, in that respect.
What I was sayin the other day about the papers. Here last week they found this couple out in California they would rent out rooms to old people and then kill em and bury em in the yard and cash their social security checks. Theyd torture em first, I dont know why. Maybe their television was broke. Now heres what the papers had to say about that. I quote from the papers. Said: Neighbors were alerted when a man run from the premises wearin only a dogcollar. You cant make up such a thing as that. I dare you to even try.
But thats what it took, youll notice. All that hollerin and diggin in the yard didnt bring it.
Thats all right. I laughed myself when I read it. There aint a whole lot else you can do.
IT WAS ALMOST A three hour drive to Odessa and dark when he got there. He listened to the truckers on the radio. Has he got jurisdiction up here? Come on. Hell if I know. I think if he sees you committin a crime he does. Well Im a reformed criminal then. You got that right old buddy.
He got a city map at the quickstop and spread it out on the seat of the cruiser while he drank coffee out of a styrofoam cup. He traced his route on the map with a yellow marker from the glovebox and refolded the map and laid it on the seat beside him and switched off the domelight and started the engine.
When he knocked at the door Llewelyns wife answered it. As she opened the door he took off his hat and he was right away sorry hed done it. She put her hand to her mouth and reached for the doorjamb.
Im sorry mam, he said. Hes all right. Your husband is all right. I just wanted to talk to you if I could.
You aint lyin to me are you?
No mam. I dont lie.