No Country For Old Men | Fate vs Chance 

I have watched NCFOM many times, it is one of my all time favourite movies. This analysis does it justice and bring many new insights to it. Well done Eric, as a newbie I am loving your channel.

Absolutely love the analysis. It’s spot on, you’ve said everything that needed to be said on the theme and meaning of the film. HOWEVER, how is it possible that you know this story so well, and yet you can’t pronounce Llewelyn and Anton?!

Makes me wanna watch this again

Watched this movie such a long time ago. Great analysis, makes me wanna watch it again.

Woah, woah, woah, I just noticed your views and subscriber count. These are well crafted, and I hope my comment becomes badly aged.

The narration here is really great. This is a beautifully shot movie. It is also incredibly depressing.

You’ve to call it or it won’t be fair. This small dialogue gives us such great depth into his point of view

You my friend are my new RU-vid channel, your balls go very very deep when it comes to dissecting movies and series. Well done brother!

I’ve watched no country many times and I always felt it was about fate, glad to see an analysis and fleshing out of this!

Great vid man, i really love your videos!

Love your reviews and your voice being incredibly soothing is a plus

Man this channel is amazing

hey- hats off to you. I'm rewatching the movie and your analysis sheds a lot of light on it. bravo and keep it up

Awesome analysis buddy, Well done!!!

Understanding this is an analysis of the film, I still wish you had given credit to Cormac McCarthy's book it's based on (especially considering he's one of the best writers of the last century). Almost all of the themes, dialogue & flow of the scenes are lifted directly from the book--you could even argue they used the book itself as the screenplay. Even things like not showing Llewelyn's & Carla Jean's deaths aren't decisions the Coens made, they're directly from the book.

wow this is a brilliant analysis! Amazing

This movie uses a lot of Schrodingers Cat. A paradox where both instances can exist when not being witnessed. This is shown at the end of the film, where the Sheriff is about to open the hotel door, where we see Anton hiding in the room but ultimately is not there when he acknowledges the chance in the situation, draws his gun and "calls it".

This was honestly an incredible video and made me love this movie even. I must say that I really felt the need to clear my throat all throughout 😂😂😂.

While I am not a fan of the film, this video was great! It's interesting to see different interpretations of one movie.

This is hilarious, I came here from your comment on your video on magnolia, you told me to check out your no country video, only to find out I've watched this already ahaha very good vid man you got a sub.

In the scene where Anton’s car is hit by another car, he doesn’t seem shocked that something like that could happen to him. He accepts it completely as his fate. He doesn’t even look to see who is in the other car after the crash because it doesn’t matter who drove the car or why the crash happened. It simply happened. I think this scene shows the depth to which Anton believes in fatalism, not just when he is empowered by it, but even when he is at its mercy.

*chefs kiss*

Great analysis! Sidenote: do you know if we can find the transcript for the final cut of the movie online?

U are preaching volumes as is the movie, the Coens, we can only trust our creators methods. We reap what we have given out. Every foul action or word will return to us. As well as good. Every bullet has an address as we see on the news day after day. When God wants his souls back He gets them back.

Lewellyn did not get drunk , he did not cheat on his wife . In a sense , this is why he died . When he follows his conscience , bad things happen

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We know the determinism won. It is suggested by Anton looking at the bottom of his shoes, which he often took off before killing people or made sure the pooling blood don't stain them (after shooting Carson). Also, we know determinism won because in the book Carla Jean finally calls it and calls it wrong. It goes like this: You are asking that I second say the world. Do you see? Yes, she said sobbing, I do. I truly do. Good, he said. That's good. Then he shot her. Couldn't help myself but sharing this, but I get the gist of your essay and I really enjoyed it.

The meaning is greed. Love of money over all else. Stupidity. Free will to abandon the money. Walk away. Let Chigurh have the money and the movie is over the plot doesn't exist.

I think the car scene speaks to the consequences of being ignorant of each mindset. if you view the world through the lense of determinism only, you will be hit in the face by chance, if you view it through chance/free will, you will be hit by determinism..

Good points you make, but that women by the pool didn't distracted him, he refused which lead to his death beacuse he was now in his room where the cartell knew he was otherwise he would have survived. Everytime he does the morally right thing he getts punished, refusing the advances of the women, bringing the halfdead guy from the mexican stand off water.

Anton is the most realistic showcasing of a psychopath in any Hollywood film as per the experts.

Me gusta como entró en la farmacia , mañana voy al Froiz de misma manera.😊

If you do things against your feelings, how is that determanism?

Antoine and Anton are not pronounced the same. His name is Anton.

I think you are mixing determinism and fatalism on some points and I think he kills her because he looks at his boots after he comes out from the house. In an earlier scene where he kills he looks at his boots after shooting checking whether there's any blood on them

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Thoughts about the crash - it does seem to raise so many questions, of what does it mean as far as fate or chance, especially since we don't see the end of the scene before it. There's plenty of blood and brutality in the movie, so it isn't like they are trying to spare our eyes of the bloodshed, and we do know that it's extremely likely she was killed, because he checks his boots, had promised he would kill her, and kills without visible emotion or regret. Her death or life seems important to the story, but, as you pointed out, the really important part of the scene is the debate between the 2 philosophies, and that is what we are left not knowing to any degree of certainty. You could say it's a 50 50 chance she chose, or he chose, but the debate rages on between us and the universe, as it may with anton after the car crash, but the coen brothers didn't help us any by letting the previous scene play out, because if he chose, we could see the car crash as the consequence of him going against his path, which had before, put him into a sorta bubble of safety within his following it, to a sociopathic level, which could even hint to the fact that he is only who he is, because when he varies from the path the universe threatens his very life. If she chose, we could see that despite everything being checked off, and his philosophy being followed to an absolute degree, he is still a victim of random chance or fate, or perhaps that has survival of the crash shows chance or fate may try and kill you but if you follow your path true you have better odds of survival. Maybe that's what fate really is, it's surviving despite chance being an unforgiving monster, constantly at odds with your survival

Antoine and Lewynn? Lolol. Sounds likr a rap group. Anton and Liewellyn

I like Barry Corbin's character

There is no free will, scientifically life is determestic sprinkled with randomness. But we have to live as if free will exist. What is true and what works is two different thing.

He's not called Lewin.

Did you say Antoine?

Why do you keep calling him lewin, ya spoon. It's Llewellyn. Loo-ellin

“Antoine & Lewin” yeah, this video is null and void lml Just how the hell can you completely & repeatedly botch the names of 2 of the 3 main characters so badly, despite having watched the movie multiple times (I assume) and put clear thought and effort into making this video? It’s kinda impressive

Is at least say the names right...

You used Antoine once and then Anton other times? Okay.

Good. But you mispronounced character names.

DAYUM, this is boring shit about one of the most intense movies made. Congratz, now do the Fortnite dance and return to playing Minecraft.