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Now I get it!!!
The jug of cold water was for the "Agua" Mexican.
So the only thing that got Josh Brolin into all that shit was that he tried to do right by the thirsty dying Mexican.
By the way, Josh Brolin can't be James Brolin's son, Christian Bale is. They have to be mixed up, LOOK AT THEM.
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Once he took the money his life was forfeit: either by Chigurh or by the Mexican mob. What is interesting is that he could not escape his own decency despite knowing the probable ramifications (I'm about to do something stupid dialogue to his wife in the trailer before going back). What he could not see was the extreme wake his actions would cause (esp to his wife) as a result of the psychopathic ‘morality’ of Chigurh. Wells is there to show the extent of Chigurh's depravity: All working to get back the money are mercenaries except Chigurh. Chigurh's "morality" would not permit Moss, or even his wife, to escape the ramifications of his actions despite the return of the money. In the book (which is great and better by far than the movie for obvious reasons the least of which is time constraints) the money is returned to a nameless man who financed the transaction and some of the most enlightening dialogue re Chirurh occurs there (read it). The story then really is about how morality, beliefs, and actions are played out in the three main characters (Chigurh, Moss & Bell) when fate and chance are factored in. Chigurh is the most depraved of the three but acts the most consistently with his beliefs (although not always as when he offers Carla Jean the coin toss despite his prior promise and how he treats the kids, the only witnesses to his existence, after the car wreck). Bell is the most moral of the three but does act out his beliefs when he has the chance (the why thereof is the reason of the book as he is the primary character therein). Moss is the most ambiguous in his morality and beliefs and chance and fate stomp him. Heavy thinking: McCarthy is terrific.
...He would have gotten caught, anyhow. I wish they'd let us know who got the money, and how Brolin's character died. This seems to be a season filled with highly regarded films with plot holes one could fly a C-130 through.
"how Brolin's character died"
That's easy, the woman by the pool set him up, and the Mexicans came in blasting. The maniacal killer got the money, as Brolin hid it in the same ventilation hiding spot he'd hidden it in the other hotel and the killer found it there.
What blew it for me was that Brolin's character made so many savvy moves, and then he made the fatal one's out of contradictory stupidity by the way he involved his wife/her mom.
I would have liked to see more of Harrelson's character--his role seemed wasted, more of an homage to him in their earlier films.
Oh well...
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the film ultimately fails because of it's extreme negativity. The pursuing cop that seems to chicken out. The brutal and unpunished slaying of the girl (related, perhaps, to the previous officer inactivity). I'll let someone else supply more examples.
Naw, it fails ultimately because the world the characters inhabit is no more believable than the one in 'The Hitcher' with Rutger Hauer, a film NCfOM uncomfortably parallels. To its credit in the latter law enforcement actually showed up when people walked the streets with firearms or played bumper cars downtown. Film craft of a very high order torpedoed by a combination of taking its mundane moral concepts too seriously and a setting from a comic book planet.
in a nice neat package, some don't. the dark vision and the ambiguity are pluses in my book.
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