>Carolyn, that is such a bummer! I agree about the TLJ
>character--it seemed to me he'd pretty much given up at the
>beginning of the movie.
>
>But they totally lost me when Moss died. At that point I
>thought well, I am no longer emotionally invested in this move
>& I can think of no reason to watch it through to the end.
>
>The one thing I took from it was not so much defeat as the
>randomness of life. Like when that evil, evil man got hit by
>a car right after he killed Moss's wife. It was one random
>scene (heads or tails? The wife not picking was kind of like
>she believed you could choose your path, that it wasn't
>determined by luck) right into another (this guy has all kinds
>of people out to hurt him & yet no one can touch him except a
>bad driver running a red light).
>
>But him getting up & walking into the sunset (bone sticking
>out of his arm or not) really confused me. Even the Coen
>brothers usually have the good guys win!
I agree that the ending was very frustrating. And Chigurh was so, I don't know, strange I guess? He was very much like a ghost to me (no past that we know of, unsure of his ethnicity, strange accent, etc).
Yes, randomness. It was about that too. Good observation. I think it is so hard to make a movie where the good guy doesn't overcome in the end. It is sure to upset many (and I was a bit shaken by the ending myself). I guess the point was to show that sometimes the bad guy wins perhaps? I think this is why I don't want to see it again. I'm aware of this and can appreciate it for what it's worth, but I too would rather see the good guy win - or at least be more of an optimist.
Carolyn