DISQUS

Hardy Campbell · 1 year ago

I am frustrated at all the reviews of this movie that I have read on the web, including this one. It seems that most of the reviewers need to see this flick multiple times, as I have (3), in order to "get it." The author/directors have sprinkled clues throughout, in a phrase here and there, in an odd scene here and there, that link what appear to be disparate scenes together into a metaphyscial poem. This movie is not about drugs, or money, or even violence. It is about the bifurcation of the human soul, in an old man who has been tormented by the evil he has buried within himself for many years. Chigurh is Bell's avatar, a vengeful wraith that can do the things a tired lawman who has given up on himself and humanity cannot do. Note the scene where Chigurh is waiting for Bell in the motel room. When Bell enters, he's gone, not because he physically left but because Bell cannot see the kind of evil he has unleashed. Note also that Chigurh does not kill Moss, because Moss was Bell's ward. The last scene, where Bell talks about his Dad providing him refuge, lets us know that Bell was dreaming, dreaming of the justice he has created in a harsh country with no room for old men like him. The metaphors sprinkled throughout tell us about the death wish of Moss (inexplicably returning to the drug sale site, his desire to tell his dead mom personally he loved her, crossing the "River Styx" pursued by the hound Cerebrus) and Bell's equality with Chigurgh when we see both of them drinking milk on the sofa and staring into the blank TV screen. Indeed, all three of these men are dead in one sense or the other. Chigurh cannot die while Bell lives, of course, but his injuries in a car crash represent the permanent damage done to Bell's soul.

243456yearstogo · 1 month ago

This movie was absolutely terrible. How anyone can enjoy this film will forever remain a mystery to me.