NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN: questions to consider

Do you find the ending of the film to be satisfying resolution ?  Why ?

it was not a satisfying resolution at all - the audience does not see any conflicts resolved between Llewelyn and Anton

How were you expecting the film to end ?  

I was expecting there to be an ending fight scene in which either one of them dies and maybe Sheriff Ed Tom Bell gets involved in some way. Also for there to be a triumph on either sides it was quite ambiguous throughout the film as to who would get the money to succeed.

Why do you feel the Coen Brothers decided to have their main protagonist killed offscreen , and then avoid a final climax between Sheriff Bell and Chigurh ?  Consider the effect on the audience in terms of expectations of genre and narrative,  and the  themes of  law and order v criminality , good v evil , heroism etc.

I think that the reason the Coen Brothers decided to end the film in this way is because they wanted to demonstrate the idea that as people age, they are pushed out by the younger generation, that the world they had known becomes a ruin upon which some new and strange world now exists. The events between Llewelyn and Anton are indicative of this idea. So the only purpose of the films game of cat and mouse is to perhaps bring Tom Bell to the moment of realisation that his time in the world is coming to an end and that he is no longer an effective force in this time? 

Who represents the force of good in the film ? What does the film's ending suggest about the battle between good and evil ?

Llewelyn and Bell present the forces of good and Anton represents evil. The ending does away with all hope and optimism. The tragic failure of heroism is stripped of meaning and all the planning and build up to a scene that we assume will happen (a final battle) but never does, is of such little use. The closest thing to an actual triumph of good over evil has nothing to do with Llewelyn vs Chigurh to Bell vs Chigurh - the most emotionally intense sequence in the film is not one in which drama rises over a standoff concerning the drug money. So perhaps the ending suggest a nihilistic view of the battle between good and evil.