Ok, what was up with the ending of No Country for Old Men?? What do you guys thi!


Question: i have no real idea what i'm talking about but if i remember correctly, the movie ends with tommy lee jones' character describing a dream he had of his father meeting him on horseback and riding ahead of him. he eventually catches up to his father who is waiting for him. given the title and theme of the film, it could be symbolic of life as a journey where everyone eventually ends up in the same place (death). his father could possibly represent generations ahead who are dead and waiting for them in the afterlife. the atrocities in the film express the fact that the world as it is today becomes increasingly inadequate for old-fashioned sensibilities. notions of justice, right/wrong--moral values become skewed as the new generation takes over. therefore, each generation's role eventually becomes obsolete to the one that succeeds it...hence "no country for old men". tommy lee jones could be foreshadowing death in the near future as he imagines his father waiting for him in the afterlife. the fatalistic attitude is inevitable as one grows older and realizes the world they live in is drastically different from the one they grew up in. i hope that makes sense.


Answers: i have no real idea what i'm talking about but if i remember correctly, the movie ends with tommy lee jones' character describing a dream he had of his father meeting him on horseback and riding ahead of him. he eventually catches up to his father who is waiting for him. given the title and theme of the film, it could be symbolic of life as a journey where everyone eventually ends up in the same place (death). his father could possibly represent generations ahead who are dead and waiting for them in the afterlife. the atrocities in the film express the fact that the world as it is today becomes increasingly inadequate for old-fashioned sensibilities. notions of justice, right/wrong--moral values become skewed as the new generation takes over. therefore, each generation's role eventually becomes obsolete to the one that succeeds it...hence "no country for old men". tommy lee jones could be foreshadowing death in the near future as he imagines his father waiting for him in the afterlife. the fatalistic attitude is inevitable as one grows older and realizes the world they live in is drastically different from the one they grew up in. i hope that makes sense.

i have no clue. i just finished watchin it and i'm still confused. i think i need to watch it again. but i think the mexicans got the money.

Law enforcement officers never quite "get away clean." They retire wondering about unsolved cases, or ones where they never felt closure about. As Tommy Lee Jones' character sits there in his suburban house, drinking coffee with his blue-eyed, feisty wife, he is sadly realizing that he's never going to solve the biggest case of his career -- which also happened to be one of his last ones. It makes him melancholy, but he's also aware that he's one of the only people from that whole episode who didn't wind up dead.

The Cohen brothers often end their moves on a subtle note; "Raising Arizona" leaves us with a dream of the future, one that is unlikely to occur. "Fargo" ends with the matter-of-fact police chief quietly awaiting the birth of her child, all the violence and adventure from the previous two hours pretty much forgotten. In a way, these films are like real life, as we often never get a dénouement, and rarely get to sum up events in our lives with a satisfied smile and a sense of accomplishment. Things become less important, but remain, in a shadowy, irritating way. Life goes on.

The significance of the car crash shows one of its themes, fate. How Chigurh decided peoples fate by a coin toss, his fate was chosen by him getting hit by another car, despite not going through a red light. The fact that he survives shows what I think the entire point of the movie is, is that evil will reign. Tommy Lee Jones retires at the end because he feels guilty for not preventing what happened to Llewelyn and Carla Jean Moss, and he retires because there is too much violence in todays society compared to when he was younger.



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