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In Reply to: RE: OK, so wife knows he is in danger, but brings her mother along posted by Duilawyer on March 25, 2008 at 08:35:05
Moss had the upper hand once he relalized the beacon would bring "you know who" right to him; could have been an ambush plain and simple -- but then the film would have been a short.
Moss should have blasted the through the door once he saw the shadow from beneath the doorway and heard Chiguir's receiver pinging like a giger counter -- but I guess this was a MOVIE.
I got the DVD, and still have yet to figure why Sheriff Bell survived at the Motel if the keyhole refections were "real-time".
I guess the book is best source to complete the picture.
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Moss had the upper hand but Chigurh heard Moss ready the weapon and walked away to turn out the hall lights. Moss didn't realize how Chigurh opens doors. By the time he figured it out, Chigurh had the upper hand and Moss had to jump out the window. Yeah, if he had it to do over again, he'd have blasted through the door as soon as he saw a shadow, but well, he had to set his gun and he didn't anticipate Chigurh would walk away, turn off the lights, come back and he'd get thumped with the deadbolt.
The images of Chigurh hiding behind the door were in Sheriff Bell's mind. When Bell pushed the door open, it went all the way to the wall without resistance. No one was behind the door. If you read the book, it turns out Chigurh was in the parking lot at the time. Bell actually had very good instincts to avoid getting himself killed.
-------------Call it, friendo.
For me it was less a criticism than a realization that up to a point, the fun creators of an artful movie have is to pull our legs just enough so we won't spill our popcorn in disbelief.
however maybe the Coens used a little poetic license so we could 'suppose' what may have been going on and we could see the little things ones life may hang on to to survive in these circumstances.
I choose to believe something along the latter idea and give the Coens credit to let our imaginations wander and fill in the gaps (also the ending is in the same vane).
In two scenes, someone buys clothing off of another person. First, Moss buys a jacket from the boys crossing the Mexican border, and later, Chigur buys a shirt (to use as a sling) from the boys who witnessed the car accident. Does anyone know if this is a literary, mythological or biblical allusion of some sort?
We don't need to have every last loose end sown up.
Life just isn't like that.
Too many movies fall over in the last 20 minutes trying to make everything make sense and be obvious to a blind bat.
The most innocent character in the film is snuffed out.
-------------Call it, friendo.
The idea that wherever Chigurh was when the Sheriff entered the Motel, he got to live because he was the truly innocent one and twisted as it may be, Chigurh actually had a code and didn't kill for no reason.
"You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when he hates all the same people you do."
...those reasons are so unique to Chigurh's pathology as to render them unreasonable -- part of the "fun" I guess.
Great villain = great movie to try and dope out.
Carla Jean was the only innocent character in the movie. Bell had undoubtedly used his gun--for justice no doubt--but he was no longer innocent. The thing is, Bell was doing is job, and as long as Chigurh wasn't cornered by Bell, he had no reason to kill Bell. Of course, Bell knew that too, and it's one reason he retired. He didn't understand the force presented by Chigurh, but he sure as hell didn't want to get snuffed out by it.
-------------Call it, friendo.
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