I am entirely willing to concede that there was a hitch in the editing for that scene.thecuckooJanuary 2 2008, 15:17:51 UTC
Which is the reason that I gave it a point or two less than the critics.
But it was not a WTF moment. The entire thrust of the film (and, from what I've been told, the book), is the realization that this isn't Moss' story. It isn't Chigurh's. It's Sheriff Bell's. You get it from the voiceover in the first frame. You get it from the expanding screen time he gets throughout the film. You get it from the scene with the sheriff in El Paso. You get it from the title. This is about a man who loses his ability to keep doing his job in the face of something that is not only evil, but literally nonsensical (and I completely disagree with Bill that the film treated Chigurh as cool; it treats him like Linear A). That last scene is him desperately trying to come to terms with something that isn't term-able
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But it was not a WTF moment. The entire thrust of the film (and, from what I've been told, the book), is the realization that this isn't Moss' story. It isn't Chigurh's. It's Sheriff Bell's. You get it from the voiceover in the first frame. You get it from the expanding screen time he gets throughout the film. You get it from the scene with the sheriff in El Paso. You get it from the title. This is about a man who loses his ability to keep doing his job in the face of something that is not only evil, but literally nonsensical (and I completely disagree with Bill that the film treated Chigurh as cool; it treats him like Linear A). That last scene is him desperately trying to come to terms with something that isn't term-able ( ... )
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