No Country for Old Men

[Bodhesatva]

super_etecoon said:
Ok Bod...

I see all that, but you don't make a movie just to say that.

There's something else going on here.

Relate to me how the dreams of his father tie into your theory (or take).

 Obviously you do make films for such simple reasons -- when you boil movies down to a single statement, they seem simple; the reason why you make film, rather than just saying "Life is hard," is to imbue that statement with more meaning and significance than it otherwise has. Heck, most war movies can be simplified down to "War is hell," but the trick of the movie is to really make you feel it. 

His father's dreams, especially the second, are quite relevant. Jones' father represents "older times," which for Jones seemed simpler and kinder (this can also be intuited from the speech at the beginning of the movie, where he talks at great length about the "old timers," and how he compares himself against them, and how the world isn't the same anymore). The world -- which is snowed over in Jones' dream -- is a cold, harsh place, and he is following is father home, to the  warmth and gentleness of those "older times."

Most literally, that home (where his father is waiting by the warmth of the fire) is death, and Jones is pushing through the cold bleakness of this world to return to the simple warmth, where his father waits. Again, I'm deliberately simplifying this.