No Country For Old Men Analysis

In the opening sequence if No Country For Old Men there is a narrator speaking while there is shots of just scenery to show the audience that it is a vast setting in the middle of no where. Then it shows the sheriff arresting a man but it does not show the mans face, this creates suspense as the audience wonders why we cannot see his face. it then shows the scene of the sheriff on the phone and we can see in the background the man walking towards the sheriff getting ready to kill him. this will make the audience anxious as the sheriff has no idea of what is going on. As the man is strangling the sheriff he starts smiling as if he is enjoying killing him. This tells us that the man is a maniac. After there is another scene were the man has taken the police car and has pulled over a civilian. This builds up tension as we already know what the man is capable of. Once again the man calmly kills the civilian as he did the sheriff. This opening sequence makes the audience ask why the man is killing all of these people and makes them want to watch the rest of the film.