Film Analysis: No Country For Old Men

No Country for Old Men is a crime film as well as a meditation on chance and destiny, a meditation on growing old and on dying young. This movie is borrowed from the novel by Cormac McCarthy. There is many wrongs done in the movie and there is very little that anyone can do to bring things back to order. The movie opens with an older man’s voiceover that is more compassionate than ruthless. While roaming through the aftermath of a Texas drug deal that had collapsed, a Vietnam veteran called Llewellyn Moss (Josh Brolin) discovers two million dollars, and a substantial amount of heroin hidden in the back of the vehicle. Moss’s plan to flee with the money sets off an explosive sequence of reaction in a stripped-down crime movie from Joel and

Carla Jean is seen pleading for her life in the hands of Chigurgh who threatens that her life was over when she came into it. Carla has faced the tragedy of her husband, Moss, and later her mother also succumbs to cancer. Moss’ end tells us that our past sins catch up with us, even if he repents, the movie will execute his punishment. Carla returns home and she finds Chigurh waiting to kill her. Chigurh offers Carla a chance to safe herself by calling flip of a coin but Carla is not interested in Chigurh’s dumb games, she denounces the offer. Instead of giving him the satisfaction of thinking that he has some random act of chaos, Carla confronts Chigurh with the claim, "The coin don't have no say. It's just you." This comment angers and startles Chigurh turning him from an agent of chaos into a delusional egomaniac. Eventually, Chigurh does not give Carla a chance to survive, as his coin is the determinant of the people’s

He uses the chance encounter of a coin toss to determine the fate of Carla Jean and the gas station attendant. Thus the lives of the two are determined by fate. Chigurh’s words that he tries to utter appear to be swallowed when they are halfway out of his mouth. This character portrays Chigurh as a less human and more, a blunt instrument. Chigurh enters a rundown gas station in the middle of wilderness and the dialogue that ensues reveals that Chigurh and the old man (Gene Jones) are talking about the fate of this old man. Chigurh does not seem to change his mind and without explaining why, he asks the nervous old man call the flip of a coin. Anton Chigurh is a psychopathic man who apparently has been hired shadowy interest to hunt and retrieve a satchel of two million US dollars in cash. It is clear that this money went missing after a drug deal collapsed. Chigurh is a tactical serial killer who has a grotesque hairstyle, and a wont to killing people using air-pressure bolt gun. His fanaticism goes beyond the cold commitment of a hired assassin. As a devoted murderer and a cognoscente of fear and victimhood, Chigurh finally seems to forget about the money he is hunting in his obsession of slaughter. Chigurh’s smile that pops out of his mouth as he speaks indicates a diabolical sort of gaiety. His funny haircut too reveals a character lacking sense of humor, a lost Beatle from hell. This comes to reality when he savagely blows a