Sometimes it’s fun to root for the villain. I think in some movies the bad guy is often cooler than the hero. The same cannot be said about Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men. In that movie the Coen’s managed to create one of the most despicable, disconnected characters I’ve ever seen.
The leading reason for this is that Chigurh is a psychopath. Of this I am convinced, and to be honest that is probably the friendliest diagnosis anybody should give him. The character’s lack of emotion makes it impossible to connect in any way with him. What makes the movie frustrating for me is that Chigurh never pays for his crimes. He never gets caught, he doesn’t die, and the two times where he sustained injuries he didn’t really show any pain. But after killing innocent people (some for no reason at all) and generally over-doing his part in making the world a worse place, shouldn’t something bad happen do him?
Perhaps this is a lesson that the world is not fair. I personally (and optimistically) reject this viewpoint that the Coen’s are trying to teach us because nothing is that bad.
The leading reason for this is that Chigurh is a psychopath. Of this I am convinced, and to be honest that is probably the friendliest diagnosis anybody should give him. The character’s lack of emotion makes it impossible to connect in any way with him. What makes the movie frustrating for me is that Chigurh never pays for his crimes. He never gets caught, he doesn’t die, and the two times where he sustained injuries he didn’t really show any pain. But after killing innocent people (some for no reason at all) and generally over-doing his part in making the world a worse place, shouldn’t something bad happen do him?
Perhaps this is a lesson that the world is not fair. I personally (and optimistically) reject this viewpoint that the Coen’s are trying to teach us because nothing is that bad.
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This is the super condensed version
hahaha you so funny...
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