No Country For Old Men was a great film, scary and violent; there were many things that made it so. The movie opens out with the voice of Tommy Lee Jones, sheriff, discusses a teenage killer who had killed his girlfriend. Here the mood for the whole filmed is laid out for you in a confident voice.
The antagonist really stood out to me, the man is named Anton Chigurh. His appearance is that of a tall man with black hair and a terrifying smile, who travels through Texas carrying a tank of compressed air and killing people.
Chigurh goes to a rundown gas station in the middle of wilderness and begins to play games with the old man (Gene Jones) behind the cash register, who becomes very nervous and preoccupied. It is clear they are talking about whether Chigurh will kill him. Without explaining why, he asks the old man to call the flip of a coin. After seeing him kill the officer at the beginning of the movie, we question as to why he doesn't kill this old man and let's him decide his own faith.
This movie is a prime example of evocation of time, place, character, moral choices, immoral certainties, human nature and fate. Why do you think Chigurh didn't kill this man? What do you think of Chigurh?
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