9/27 Connor Erickson

Today in class we continued watching, No Country for Old Men, and started playing the movie just after Moss had been shot. Throughout the entire movie we’ve seen the movie from more of Moss’ point of view than the sheriff but after Moss died it was all from the Sheriff’s point of view and Chirgurh’s point of view. The movie starts today with Moss getting buried and the sheriff going to the crime scene to check things out. As the sheriff goes back to the crime scene, the motel, we as an audience get an eerie and curious kind of feel because we see that the lock has been shot out (the lock being shot out has shown us from past experience with the movie that Chigurh has been there).  But as the film continues the suspense is built up and nothing happens during the scene.  Then after Moss’ funeral, Carla Jean Moss goes back to the house to find that the window is open. She goes into her room and Chigurh is sitting on a chair in the corner just staring at her. As an audience we feel something bad about to happen because of Chigurh’s monotone voice and when Carla Jean Moss tries to talk him out of it he says, “Everyone says that. Your husband had a chance to save you and instead he tried to save himself.” The intense scene goes on and he flips a coin and tells her to choose a side. She tells him no because the coin doesn’t pick what actions you need to take only you do. After an argument back and forth the next scene shows him walking out the house and cleaning his boots (applying the sense that he killed her). He drives away and is hit by another car. He pays a boy on a bike to give him his shirt and that he never saw him. Chigurh leaves the scene with a bone sticking out of his arm. The most important scene was the ending scene that nobody seemed to like. It was the sheriff talking about his dreams (applying the sense that he has ptsd) and the movie ends. As a class we discuss why the directors would want to end the movie that way. Moss is dead, his wife is dead, the sheriff has ptsd, Chigurh left the crime scene with a broken arm, and the Mexicans have the money. We as an audience don’t know anything else and as a class we came to an agreement that the directors want the audience to think and imply the ending. All the suspense built up for an unresolved ending was their intention.