No Country For Old Men

No Country For Old Men is known as an "almost impossibly faithful adaptation" of the novel by

Cormac McCarthy, all the way down to what could be translated to camera angles. For example, the scene where Chigurh goes to Moss' trailer. In both the book and film, Chigurh blows the lock in with his cattlegun, scans the rooms, takes a carton of milk from the refrigerator, and finally sits down on the couch and "looked at himself in the dead gray screen." (80) This exact shot of Chigurh was used by the Coen brothers, but the most interesting part about it was how they continued to use it. Parallels were a common motif in this film, beginning with both Chigurh and Moss telling their prey to "stand still" before shooting. This shot
created several more parallels between the movies characters in an interesting way too. The first is between Moss and Chigurh again: when Moss arrived home and sits on the couch with Carla Jean, they are filmed in one medium shot. When Chigurh sits on the couch the

next day, he is filmed the same way, creating the parallel between those two men, but the camera also switches to reflect Chigurh in the screen. This seems insignificant until Bell arrives mere hours later, and is shot the same way as Chigurh, in the TV screen. This entire motif is symbolic of the characters relationships to each other: Moss and Chigurh are directly hunting each other, as are Chigurh and Bell,

but Bell and Moss are only involved through Chigurh. What other parallels are made between characters throughout the film?