re: Just finished watching No Country for Old Men

Is it possible someone can get the point of this movie, and still not like it?

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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.

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Exactly. Chigurh is sort of an Ayn Rand archetype. He is actually a psychopathic sadist, but he has convinced himself that he is superior to everyone else, and beyond morality even, because he is smarter than everyone (so he thinks) and because he has adopted his own code. He and his code transcend petty humanity (in his mind) until the random action of some mere mortal shows him that he's a... just mere mortal, and less than that, a psychopath without justification.

Bell is also giving up illusions of control. He's no psychopath, so it's less dramatic, but we see him edging into retirement and reluctantly letting go - realizing that it's not the world getting worse, it's just him getting weaker and more fearful and hesitant with age as the world passes him by, and even more - that he never really had that much power over things anyway.