NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN: ENDING and RESOLUTION

 - movie initially makes us believe that we'll see the 'good guy' defeating the 'bad guy' and walking away into the sunset with the bag of cash

- we realise no one was really 'good' and that they were merely after the drug money

- character arcs relitavely resolved - unepected and unsatisfying but still resolved as ed tom bell dream thing suggests hes come to terms with end of life/retired now and is old

- death is the resolve, chigurh does his job, they all die

- chanceand fate - coin toss - she doesnt call it, taking his power from him, her death is honourable

- she talks abt not having money - he reasures her its temporary - 2fold giving her peace of mind and telling her shes gon die 

- all about acceptance of death

- girl makes him realise its actually him himself who is bringer of death - in that moment he has to accept it, maybe question his morals etc, uses coin /fate as an excuse

- cosmically punished as an agent of chaos - will he die? last we see of him is him walking off

- ed tom bell has been stripped of all the things that gave his life so much meaning

- the last 20 minutes are no longer a thriller, it becomes something much darker

- old ragged tree in the back with half the leaves falling off is representative of ed tom bell

- the painting in the back is western scenery, as if its taken out of the film; could be the future of any of the characters

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