My favorite part is when Anton Chigurh says, “Lewellyn, don’t you realize this is no country for old men?” And he starts chigurhing all over the place.

"Good doesn't just exist to change the world, but in spite of it." I love that line

Lewellyn had 2 close calls with death and every time it was a very dramatic and suspenseful scene, but his death was nothing but a cinematic footnote.

A detail that was left out in the film that was in the book is that the Sheriff fought in World War 2 and abandoned his troop during an attack and was the only survivor. He did the dishonorable thing and survived while Llewelyn tried to be a good man and help the dying man in the truck and his life ended as a result. In the end, the Sheriff walks away once again and gets to survive while the man who attempted to fight dies.

The best part about Anton is the way he managed to instill fear into the audience in literally every scene he's in despite his walking around ominously and shamelessly with a Lord Farquaad haircut

The scene where Carla tells Anton that she won't call the coin toss is my favorite in the movie. In that moment she forced Anton to make a decision on his own and it caused him to get so frazzled that he almost died in a car accident. He portrayed himself as an agent of inevitability, but Carla informs him that his nature isn't inevitable and that he's just a fucking psycho

I appreciate how the Sheriff's brother calls him out for being all morose about this "new evil." The evil isn't new. Its as old as time. Their uncle bled to death in his own doorway as the men who shot him sat on their horses and watched him bleed. The evil is new to HIM.

“If the rule you follow brought you here, of what use was the rule?”

The idea that No Country for Old Men is just the sheriff trying to piece together what happens which explains Chigurh’s invincibility, why our main character is so perfect, and how things seem to randomly happen is such a well thought up concept that it MUST be true

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The ending of the film perfectly brought Chigurh back down to everyone else's level. Lewellyn's wife defying him and then the car wreck made him out to be just as at the mercy of the world as everyone else in the story.

Water is an elemental feature as well. First mentioned by the dying driver of course, Moss returns with it (as you note in another context) and this is the primary inciting incident. A river saves him from gunfire and the hunting dog. The sound of a toilet flushing saves the woman at the trailer park. The tension in the service station began with the man asking specifically whether there had been rain. The Rio Grande provides Moss with immediate safety (so much so that he sleeps in the open), and he later is told by Chigurh that he knows he is in the "hospital across the river", yet he had not tried to cross it apparently. When Wells crosses back to the US, checking the bag on the way, he loses the protection of the river and is trapped. There is the hosing out of the chicken feathers after the unseen human carnage, and the motel pool before another bout. I cannot help but feel that the juxtaposition of deadly desert setting and pacifying water was intended.

I love the fact that the sheriff, despite diving head first into danger somehow avoids it completely, but Llewelyn who is constantly trying to hide from danger ended up dead. Anton calculated every move then almost died in a car crash he never knew was coming. Carla has no place in any of the events and still gets killed. The world from the story is unpredictable and unfair, people can't have everything go their way, it's even sadder that this is exactly the world we are living in

I always saw the car crash with Anton as a demonstration of his own line about "if the rule you follow got you here, what's the point of the rule?" If he IS a real character who sees himself as an agent of the rules of the world, then the coin flip is his rule. It's his justification for killing any innocent or non-threat to himself. He never once stops to believe that someone would simply refuse the coin flip. His rule is broken by someone else, and it permanently changes him. He may have killed Carol, but his rule, and as such his skill and resolve have been rendered imperfect. His armor is stripped away and he almost instantly succumbs to a harm that he has no chance of fully recovering from. He can't go to a doctor or a hospital, so his wounds will never heal correctly. He will no longer be the perfectly efficient killer he has become in order to survive the world. His future immediately becomes uncertain, the same way each of his victims must have felt just before calling the coin flip. He becomes just as vulnerable and harmless as they all were. Even someone who attempts to follow the rules of a cruel world cannot escape its wrath forever.

I'm glad someone finally explained this film to me. I love the movie and have watched it many times but never fully understood the meaning behind it. After watching your video I am reminded of something I was told many years ago and it seems to apply to life even now. "You win some, you lose some, and sometimes you get rained out" thank you for your time and the creation of this video

In Cormac McCarthy's novel "No Country for Old Men," Carson Wells is depicted as a former lieutenant colonel who has become a hitman. He is hired by the people who lost the money to find Llewelyn Moss and recover the suitcase full of cash. Wells is familiar with Anton Chigurh, the primary antagonist, and understands the extreme danger Chigurh presents. Despite this, he underestimates Chigurh's cunning and ruthlessness, which proves to be a fatal mistake. In the novel, Wells serves as a secondary character whose role and perspective highlight Chigurh's brutal and unyielding nature.

I read a post somewhere about how smart of a villain Anton is. He rents a hotel room near the one he's planning on attacking instead of just barging in guns blazing. He studies the room to see the thickness of the walls so he knows what he can shoot through or not, he notes the lightswitch locations as well as possible spots somebody could be hiding in, and furthermore he takes his shoes off to hide the sound of his footsteps. As he's confronting Llewelyn in the second hotel, he walks PAST the room first and then turns off the hall light so Llewelyn can't tell exactly when he's standing in front of the door from the shadow beneath it. Later in the movie, he knows exactly how to distract everyone nearby so he can walk in and take what he needs to mend his injuries from a pharmacy, and he also knows what to look for and how to use it. This is the opposite to how most villains are written nowadays where they are 'smart' just because the characters tell us they are, despite the audience never seeing this level of depth. Anton is actively shown to be intelligent and it is proven on-screen, we don't just hear about how he's clever, it is shown.

Crazy to hear him thank for 100k subs. This wasn't even 2 years ago and he's almost at 2 million. that's insane growth!

The two dreams that the Sheriff had were perfectly symbolic of not only the solution to the problem he faced throughout the whole movie, but also why he felt the way he did.

Personally, I think McCarthy's way of depicting Moss's death is even more gut wrenching than the movie's, it shows his character even further as he tanked bullets and continued to fight to his inescapable death