No Country for Old Men - An explanation 

2 million in cash...think airport...Costa Rica

First thing you do is counting the money

@@abelmontoya5 Exactly. As you are counting you will find the tracker.

@@fightsports66 caracters in movies always make stupid decisions maybe they are necesary for the plot

@@MoTheYounger it happens in real life that's true but in movies the decisions that the caracters make are sometimes totaly absurd and make no sense at all, like going back to give water to a man who most certainly is already dead knowing the place is a big crime scene. One thing I don't like about movies, stupid decisions.

This video has a fair amount of overinterpretation that the author indicates throughout his oeuvre: justice is hope; brutality is everywhere.

Thanks for that adivice 👍🏾I was thinking the same thing about the storekeeper, that performance was absolutely brilliant holy crap

@@beauclaus Agree

@@trippykoa245 Neat huh? You're welcome.👍

Which he has...

Try Kazuo Kiriyama from Battle Royale. Guy is insane.

Imo...he's not a man. Or, if he is...he's possessed.

I would offer that im the guy who roots for villians usually, idk why, maybe im copying deniro from good fellas, but anton is the first i can recall not rooting for, im short circuiting over this.

I still check under the bed to make sure Anton Chigur is not there!

You haven't seen DDL in gangs of new york?

It is, but kinda ruins the grave tone of the whole scene for me.

@@Mrkmotr The scene was immediately defused when the old man called the coin correctly. Anton was completely indifferent about the man from that point forward, I thought it was perfect.

After the coin/fate has decided the man is to live, he's actually quite nice to him and even happy. it's the happiest we ever see Anton in the entire film.

@@harizotoh7 more directors and actors should pay attention to this, the villain doesnt have to be CRAZY or menacing, or wild and genius, just very focused on a goal that ruins the main character.

@@robo-man8638 he exhaled when he said "well done", almost like he was proud of the man for choosing correctly, and he was just as tense as the man.

Dante TB simply because it's genuine fear that is showing through his expressions. Absolutely agree!

Balian me?

Definitely agree.

Dante TB I agree great scene

He did win an oscar and was praised universally, but I agree in principal.

❤️

I don't get it. The scene is ok.

It's because he's a nice old man and you don't want him killed. Like life, Sugar can be devastatingly cruel without motive. I think Sugar was glad that he called it right. He didn't want to kill him but would have.

Why i find it scary is that the old man has never met in his life who sees him more than a service man but he was here for a purpose and was no ordinary man and his way of speaking made him even more terrifying and dangerous so at that time old man must have been scared to death

On their deathbeds.

This is what I say to modern day traditional conservative

It’s really a meaningless quote. This is basically chigure mocking someone for being a victim of random chance. We only have so much control over our fate, we are all subject of the whims of this world. And the movie proves this quote is bunk by having Chigur nearly die in a random car wreck. All his decisions, all his rules, they mean nothing in the end as anything can kill him at any moment.

Mine is always have my .357 mag near.

@@EggEnjoyer ok here is a better phrase : "Chance, fate and death have something in common : they do not make any exceptions, they cannot be reasoned with, hence they are the only things that are just."

Agreed

Yep. Good call.

Yeah, of course. I didn't even know that was debated.

In the book, she calls tails. (And it was heads.) This change is (imo) the most interesting by the Cohn's.

Definitely. I said that to my friends when he walked out of the house checking his feet. They didn't think he killed her. It seemed obvious to me.

it's true, he was in the room next door.

+Chad9976 plus he took the loot from the vent, hence the dime.... imo

Still he was hiding.

Where?

He was hiding in the next motel room over. Evidence: They show the bolts to the air duct observed on the floor by the sheriff. We can thus assume, based on what Moss did earlier in the movie by hiding the money in an adjacent room, that this same strategy was used again at this motel. This time, however, Chigurh is on to him, so goodbye Llewelyn. When the sheriff checks the room, he does so only to find it empty. In my opinion, I think when he sees the air duct bolts on the floor, he knows, deep down, that the assassin is next door; but he prefers retirement over gun blazed glory. Y'all buy any of that?

Nihilistic approach. That's the physical reality you refer to. But the metaphysical realm is a suppressed topic of mainstream consciousness. Material nihilism is an unfortunate outlook most folks have, and it's one of the reasons society is the way it is, as demonstrated in the movie ..

Darastrixx, he did kill her. he checks his boots for for blood when he leaves the house.

Darastrixx offering her the coin toss in the first place is what betrayed his code. there was no choice for him but to kill her

Garrett Griggs thats fine, but doesnt change that he tried to get out of killing her by offering her the coin toss. he already said she would be killed. thats why he was injured in the wreck, for going against whatever force he lives by

This is exactly why I love movies. No Country for Old Men is one of those movies that will be broken down and analyzed for years.

jim morgan Lol

Movie Buff, Thought provoking idea you bring. Respectfully, however, I'm not sure the camera angles support your premise. The door lock on room 112 is on the right. If Chighur was seeing Ed Tom's reflection in the empty lock cylinder he would have had to be staring down from the left of the door he was standing behind. In short, if he were standing behind the door of 112, there would be no reflection to see. Moreover, the air duct where the money was hidden does not have a wide enough shaft to allow for the same hiding game that was played earlier in the first hotel. So I can't fathom a reason for Chighur to be standing in room 112 to begin with.

The door of the room Ed Tom enters - we see it touch the wall on opening - so no way Chigurh can be behind it. We know he is behind one of the two doors - so that leaves 112. Camera angle is in fact correct. The door of 114 opens in to the right leaving a small space between it and the wall. Chigurh is clearly off to the right of the hole (looking from the outside) and cannot fit in that space. The door of 112 opens to the left which means the open part of the room is to the right and that is indeed where we find Chigurh. Again - coin flip repeated throughout the film in numerous ways. As for the vent - it is calling out that Chigurh has been there. Whether the money would fit or not is irrelevant. Chigurh looked there because it is where Llewelyn had hidden it during the last hotel encounter. It lets Ed Tom know he was there after the fact and by virtue of the fact that we acknowledge Ed Tom saw both door locks blown in we assume he would go looking in the next room. Instead he takes his coin flip victory and sits on the bed. Why would Chigurh be standing in 112? Because there is a vent that passes between the two rooms just as there was when he ran into Llewelyn the first time. He was in the process of checking the "second room" when Ed Tom pulled up and cornered him. Again - coin flip.

Movie buff, Well, you got me to look at the sequence a few times. I follow your logic, but it still doesn't hill square with me. However, I can't help but see that there are flaws in my case as well. This has brought me to the conclusion that I may be overthinking this whole scene. Could it be that both of us are wrong? Could it be that the image of Chigurh in the dark room is simply the representation of the fear in the mind of Ed Tom? His worst fears may be "behind the door" so to speak. The ambiguities of the sequence may have been purposeful.

Hopefully they’ll make a sequel

MovieBuff Texas pessimism. Not nihilism.

Two face

@@azzystillborne9125 Ironically played by Tommy Lee Jones...

John Smith in the 90s.

Trev Mac what about John Wick with a pencil?

Anton

same.....

Same

Yup me too

I was trying to tell my friend that it was him, he didn't believe me.

wut...I recognised immediatly

I agree. He takes himself out of the drama with the coin flip. It's interesting that he kills in cold blood, but never lies.

You, and the video maker, are so wildly off-target with these disconnecting, nonsensical symbolism analyses.

The Burning Sensation He is still definitely a character though. And an enigma.

The Truth of the Matter I thought I was going to be the only one that picked up on that, which was probably arrogant of me, and I don't know why for certain, but British people have a tendency to allegorize everything. I think they are afraid of literal truth or cannot possibly comprehend how anyone or thing could just mean what it says it means, on the surface. They are the types who think Plato and Aristotle were great geniuses, although if you were to ask, "how so?" you will get a most generic answer. They also like to make up pre-histrory and languages that nobody has ever heard or seen based on alleged similarities between Greek and Sanskrit that are so few in number and so better explained as loan words that any logical mind will be refuse to accept the hypothetical PIE language (academias fuck you to all non Europeans and it's own students if they are stupid enough to accept that this passes for knowledge).

Fate. Like a Bergman film.

Don’t put it in your pocket.

What business is that of yours.. freindo

It's your lucky coin.

Which it is

Don’t put it in your pocket, or it could get mixed in with all the others and become just a coin...which it is.

Fr tho...

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Thank you

This trick is a game changer. Good looking out Joe!

JingleJoe Thanks a ton!!

Yes, meant the other older man, the one with the cats.

Ellis.

Mike Smith Great quote I must say. And spot on. They started us on the abortion and made it digestible for the gullible feminists and SJWs under the euphemism of 'reproductive rights' and now it's all leading towards euthanasia.

I just want to let everyone know: I watched both of my grandparents die in a nursing home. My Grandmother passed in her sleep. My Grandfather died while I watched him pointing to his throat with fear in his eyes. Do you all know how they kill old people in the nursing home? They stop giving them water. They only allow them wet wash rags and ice chips. So I ask; what's the difference from a nursing home and hospice-literally killing people, and assisted suicide?

Dustin 3423 I did not know that.

Well.. keep in mind, Woody Harrelson did play a pretty despicable character in NATURAL BORN KILLERS.

do you mind telling me why he was arrested in beginning? at first I thought they were telling story backwards like in carlitos way.. book name too please

in the scene where Anton has the gun on Carson in the hotel room, he tells Carson about getting arrested. He was in a diner having dinner. when he went to pay his check and leave, some guy at the counter made a comment 'he couldn't ignore'. So he invited the guy outside to talk. in the parking lot they had a fight and Anton killed him with a choke hold. His friends were trying to revive the guy when Anton drove away. Then he was arrested the next day.

"book name too please" What the fuck? Are you asking the name of the book that No Country for Old Men is based on???

Is it as good as Blood Meridian?

Well there is another way to look at it. It’s called choices. For instance, if Josh Brolin’s character never went back to give the water to the guy he may have gotten away with it. Choices.

@@YGardenRose quite the opposite

​@@YGardenRose Choices is decidedly not what this film is about, but rather the opposite: powerlessness in a changing world. Nothing wrong with emphasising one's own agency, of course, but that would be a fundamental misreading of this film.

The guy when Anton asking "Maybe...You see me ?". Obviously that guy said "I Don't". If he says Yes. Will be killed... I agree with You is about Choices X Fate

@@YGardenRose he would not got away because the wallet had a signal receiver. Anton would easily find him

Wait...what??

they made it. its a lesbian porno

Could you send me a link? I googled "Yes Country for Young Women" & I couldn't find anything called that but if they did make something called exactly "Yes Country for Young Women" then I will watch it start to end. I am glad someone knows of the existence of such a film & possibly where to locate it, I have wanted to see it ever since I finished watching No Country for Old MEn

I died

its playing on promhub

Is there no redemption?

Nope

I don't think she was a trap, I think she was just a bad idea... and the fact that Moss would spend time with her while his wife was worried sick about him tells us he is not a "good guy."

@@JadeDude1973 Honestly, the fact he kept the obviously illicit money in the first place instead of taking it to the police already showed he is not a good guy.

@@JadeDude1973 he spent time wit her? How do you know?

@@JadeDude1973 There is no evidence of that besides mild flirting. He dies in his own room. If he cheated the would have been in the other woman's room and perhaps might have lived.

So the woman was working for the Mexicans? Dang man I think you got it right and I missed that entirely.

I hope this doesn't make me sound stupid but whenever Anton spoke, his voice was difficult to understand because it was SO LOW and raspy. I had to turn on subs to understand him.

sounds like you repeated what was stated in this video.

+danpt2000 so?

MintD 83 so?

She said naught about background of Anton. He exhibits all the aspects of a sociopath. they know all the social graces, they are just incapable of feeling them.

So, the main question remains: does the "self" exist"? the answer should be obvious.

Joe pesci

@@rickjensen2833 In what role?

@@DangerClose13E casino and goodfellas

@@rickjensen2833 You must have read "The Psychopath Inside" by neuroscientist Dr. James Fallon! He (a diagnosed psychopath) actually cited the Tommy DeVito character in GoodFellas as being one of the most realistic portrayals of a low-functioning psychopath in Hollywood cinema (with William Petersen's Will Graham character in Manhunter being a good portrayal of a high-functioning psychopath, iirc.) Also worth noting that psychopathy as a mental condition doesn't automatically make one want to kill people (plenty more neurotypical murderers/sadists out there.)

@@mattwardpictures usually a person that is kind to animals is a safe bet of not being one.

No, he's not supposed to be 'good'. The 'good' guys are the police like jones. He is following a storyline made up all of bad guys. Moss is not only poaching, but then steals what doens't belong to him, which sets the whole thing in motion leading to not only his death but his wifes. Definitely not a 'good guy'. Represntation is something else entirely and books are full of different interpretations from films and books. You could also say he's literal 'insanity', although you could argue that the 'randomness of life and death' are insane, but again, you have to remember that LONG before the coin toss comes along, other parts are moving. If the bad guy hadn't stolen the money, his wife and he would be alive. So don't steal drug dealers money kids! But if you are interpreting, then coen brothers films usually aren't 'people' but ideas. The evil people in this case is stephen Roots character, and he wasn't prospering by the end. The two boys at the end are just fine, so apart from the store owner, who of course meet 'characters' like this every day and it obviously wouldn't have played out like that. Store owners usually have been robbed so many times even in the eighties that they are well prepared in texas. I actually didn't like the film, I thought it was cheesy and violent with no real purpose. It almost reads as american propaganda in a sense and I went to a couple of sites just to get that idea out so that I can forget the movie, thats the good thing about social media. Blood Simple at least had redeeming complexities to it, this was just too 'black and white' but with some literary possibilities thrown in to make it academically interesting. Even the Coens admitted that the main thing they liked aobut its 'genre stretching' was the fact that the protagonist and antogonist don't ever meet. But thats pretty thinly sliced literary complexity. In the end what it does is what WAY too many hollywood movies do, which is make people fear strangers. Anybody out there could be a guy on a mission who will shoot you for nothing to do with you. If that were LESS common in movies I wouldn't mind so much, but its way too common in both Coen brothers films and hollywood movies at large.

@@mikearchibald744 I like what your saying but I'm not sure if its true

if he wants the money, why did he leave it in the car at the end?

No. He didn’t want the money at all

If Anton wanted money, then he wouldn't be a scary individual at all. He'd also be less cunning at that. What makes him scary, is the fact that he doesn't have any defining goal. What I get from the ending is, is that Ed has come to realize that some people are just plain evil, for no reason at all.

M-T great point

Smarty Jonez yes he left the money in the car

She is the only empathable person in the story, and yes, she was courageous and brave. Having said that, practically, if she called it, they would have 50% chance of survival.

Hello Christopher, yes, I agree with you. This is one of the sections I had to remove from the original video for it would have taken too much time. In my view, the story of the cattle rancher sheds light on the weak side of Chigurh's philosophy: he treats humans as animals (the cattle-gun) but "even in the contest between man and steer the issue is not certain." (Bell).

No Country for Old MMMMen movieee here => twitter.com/99b26f0690bd92065/status/795842843017297920 Noooo Country for OOOld Men An expppplanation

Christopher Todd yah the interperation's totally missed the conversation part of sherif with his wife carla

which pump water.

Yeah. NO ONE..... I repeat..... NO ONE here in Texas calls those "wind turbines". They aren't a turbine.

Joanna Rees-Jones water pump to be exact. Plenty here in Australia.

It's called a windmill in Texas... Period.

That's what I said - to myself

bones22j There's a lot more and deeper to it too. This was a great vid with some unique points, but there are some other great vids and written analyses that are very well worth checking out. I was baffled by my first couple viewings, and after reading and watching some of those analyses it blew me away and made it all so much more enjoyable and appreciated. Now I'm a massive Coen Brothers fan! Check out a few things from a google search 👍😎

bones22j ,,, Wait you get into your fifties in your totally understand this movie. Societie any more isn't set up for older people. Unfortunately the young people don't realize they will be old people some day.

Wow, everybody is asking me about There will be blood... maybe I should really work on it!

I've recommended There Will Be Blood to everyone I know, four of whom I sat down alongside to make sure they watched it. Somehow everyone who did watch it fell asleep. Funny thing, that.

For Recreational Use Only it's the kind kind of slow, soft, depressing movie that I love but that makes fans of the avengers and similar movies fall asleep. Matter of taste I guess

Brain Blender also nightcrawler starting Jake gyellehaal

nightcrawler was excellent

Totally agree--it could have easily been a deleted scene.

Harrelson's a legend. Was great to see him get a role in this awesome flick. That being said. His character was arrogant and it was refreshing to see him get blasted like that in the hotel room.

I disagree. He gives Chigurh an established backstory, that he has certain rules and motivations. And his character also shows that even understanding Chigurh doesn't mean you'll beat him.

Adam Chapman It also completes the idea of the western stereotype that the movie convinced us of up until the death of Moss

*Chigurh

DarkEmpire626 English teacher ass nigga

Dre FromRegal​​ You want to fail this class again?

Great comment.

NinjaTrickVideos skf

There ain't no vultures.

Axis Angles but they do have a choice

He forcing them into taking a chance by having already flipped the coin. Either they take the chance or they take nothing at all.

But u do have a choice.. You choose to call it or not.. If u don't call it, u die like his wife at the end. Pretty simple logic dude

John Smith..I don't think he killed the wife at the end. He already flipped the coin but she refused to call it. Like he said to the guy at the service station "I can't call it for you" and so if he did kill her, then that would mean he did call it for her.

since he was born

wow, deep. I have to agree with you after giving it some thought

Good point.

yep.....good abstract metaphor.....

@pyropulse Literally google Schrodinger's Cat you moron. If you don't know what's cooking then stay the hell out of the kitchen.

@@techspider7486 i see it as a play on the name Coen. just that and only that.

Yes, the sheriff is the main character as per the book.

Thanks!

dan macmoo

--cLAsic-- you good?

--cLAsic-- You call him out for an astute observation...yet you can't even spell "losers" correctly...ooookay then.

Yeah but you do realise chigurgeon is an actual word dont you? You may have to look, but you'll find it. & my emphasis on stating it was to show an even deeper meaning to what the creator of this video expounded about this film & the character. You do know that such comments do make readers consider you to be some form of troll ? As for the 15th century reference I appologize, as I've since found that it was still in common useage @ the time of the american civil war, so the 19th century, my bad. But when the hell does having a bit of archaic knowledge & the desire to help diseminate it to a wider audience make someone a danger (or near one as you state ) to society ? Such doesnt mean I need help, it just means I've a brain that retains things I've read in books, you remember books right? By the way, how old are you ? I havnt had anyone call me Sir since I left the Marine Corps. That you mock those with knowledge really make me question your age as well as your maturity level. Lastly knowledge doesnt make anyone special, its there for all to embrace including yourself.

E2 PISC

Thats allright, Honesty goes really far in the world & tends to disqualify someone as a troll as they dont know what that is. You however do understand. Also I was really suprised that you didnt use explictives which most use as the most common of retorts. I got a computer bug a month ago & we would've had this conversation then if my damn kid hadn't been using my laptop to look @ porn. Sorry, TMI. You have a great night bro

Anton represents the psychopath that thinks he is right and uses destiny as an excuse to continue his spree.

@@NessieAndrew In the literal way,yeah. He is a immoral psychopath who has no sense of empathy. But to the reader/watcher he is an embodiment of fate. You aren't supposed to watch this movie with a literal mind anyways,it's all metaphor after metaphor. I give it a 5/7.

It’s no wonder I had respect for Chigurh

He is like a natural evil.

He’s death

Not if you have nuclear bombs.

But yes I agree with your own stoicism within the pedantic configuration you have above.

@@crimsonfox87fluxule62 Sorry, what?

I was making a half-assed attempt at a continuation by joking about fighting the entire world.

Which can be done easily with nuclear bombs.

i'm a human

i feel like chigurh is supposed to be evil in human form and his seemingly indestructible character represents the perpetual and everlasting evil in this world. sheriff bell on the other hand represents a long lost sense of naivety. he lives his life in reminiscence of what once was a personal utopia from his perspective, he doesn't represent good or evil in another sense, but rather middleground, realism.

Yes....You connect metals for a living. At least me being unemployed without any motives or desires bored in the fires of hell only to look around and nothing worth moving to so I sit in my flames of agony.... i'm at least a nobody.....a nobody is still human.... If the whole world is a prison...what does it matter if the guard sets you free? You don't leave the cell...you simply sit there looking at an open door that leads to the same place....I'm a human that has lost what it means to be human....I'm just a confused fuckup.....Though you sir.....are a fucking welder.....that's not human..

Thank you miss, much obliged!

Do The Movie There Will Be Blood Next !!!!!

It did but some of what that guy came up with is pretty wild.

Take the money and run Bobby Sue

It was a great big hassle

Elwood Blues yea we got. We also watched you tube idiot.

Balian Exactly. And the darkness that Chigurh represents is growing now that all the traditional men that kept it at bay like the Sheriff are fading, partly from advancing age and partly from disgust at seeing their type demonized and watching good transform into evil and evil into good.

Ezekiel Watters But Chigurgh, or someone or something like him, was always there...

MCVessels My first sentence above was key. I said that the evil that Chigurh represented is growing because the traditional masculine men represented by the sheriff are fading. Of course the darkness was always there, but it was kept on the fringe and on the run by traditional men. Now that men like that are denying out and replacements kept at bay by a feminized politically correct culture, the evil that they kept down to size is growing and facing little opposition. This does not bode well for the future. The Sheriff saw this coming and was disturbed by it, feeling out gunned and troubled about the future so he retired.

Ezekiel Watters I'm not sure it's as simple as that. Chigurh is acting as an unstoppable and perhaps unknowable force here, and he confounds everything that the characters throw at him. The forces of law and order, as represented by Sheriff Bell, can't defeat him - the sheriff never even gets to confront him, and although our sense of story tells us that an old lawman approaching retirement should either defeat the forces of darkness or die for what he believes in, he instead finds himself impotent and retires knowing that he failed. Carson Wells, for all his experience and violence and the self-assurance of a man in the prime of life, is destroyed by Chigurh the way you'd squash a cockroach. Llewelyn's cunning and instinct for survival cannot protect him. The only person who comes close to leaving a scratch on Chigurh is Carla - the least masculine, most compassionate character - by refusing to accept the meaningless rules he lays down. And that, too, is useless. We've each put rules in place to guard against the sense that catastrophe can strike at any time, and that makes us feel better. But Chigurh, when he appears, isn't so different from the car which speeds out of nowhere and hits him. We can decide that cars should not drive through red lights - but they do, and they crush us and then speed off. It seems to me that the malevolence which Chigurh stands for isn't evil in the traditional sense, but the forces of a blind and mechanistic universe: not fate, but simple cause and effect. And if our way of life is changing, it is because we are coming to recognise that we are not at the centre of the universe: the world will not make exceptions for any of us, any more than it will for a car or a coin. If I were to ascribe a cause to this I'd say it might be our growing movement away from the human system of religion and towards an ahuman system of science, or I might say it comes from an awareness of the horrors of the 20th century, of the various genocides and of atomic warfare. Compared to these things, political correctness is a really small potato - and if it leads to more Carlas and fewer Carsons, it might even help our chances slightly when Anton comes calling.

That’s what I don’t get. At first I thought turbine no.1 must represent the sheriff as it is far away while the other two are in the foreground, in the same way that the sheriff is always following the trail of Moss and Chigurh. But on second thought turbine no.3, the old and broken one, could also represent the sheriff, with turbine no.1 representing Chigurh because he is so far removed, psychologically speaking, from everyone else in the story.