re: Just finished watching No Country for Old Men

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Tommy Lee Jones' last scene as the Sheriff explains it all.

He basically says there will always be incomprehensible criminals like Anton Chigurh's and peacekeepers like him and his father. TLJ grew up in an era when there was just "right vs wrong".

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Pretty much all of this. Story is about Bell and what he perceives to be a changing world. The story his Uncle Ellis tells him is to show that evil has always been present. In reality, the world never really changes, we just lose the will to fight it as we grow old.

Chigurh isn't Satan and isn't some unstoppable force. Hell, Llewyn damn near kills him at one point. Like Carter, he has his set of rules that he believes in his mind to be superior to everyone else's. The car crash at the end is perfect. He is cruising through a set of green lights and gets T-boned by someone not following the same set of rules. Chigurh living is better justice for him than if he would have died. This way, he gets to realize that he is just another spec of dust like the rest of us.