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Posted: 8/28/2016 1:06:29 PM EDT
Can someone please explain the conclusion to this movie? I just don't get it
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Posted: 8/28/2016 1:07:31 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/28/2016 1:07:35 PM EDT
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He was blind the whole time
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Posted: 8/28/2016 1:07:45 PM EDT
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She dead.
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Posted: 8/28/2016 1:08:45 PM EDT
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How much would you take for the shirt?
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Posted: 8/28/2016 1:08:58 PM EDT
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You were not brought upon this would to get it.
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Posted: 8/28/2016 1:09:09 PM EDT
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Bad ass walked away so he can come back in another movie.
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Posted: 8/28/2016 1:09:42 PM EDT
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He fixes the cable.
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Posted: 8/28/2016 1:09:58 PM EDT
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It's no country for old men
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Posted: 8/28/2016 1:10:22 PM EDT
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You mean Chigurh or the the Sheriff's talk about his dream?
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Posted: 8/28/2016 1:10:26 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/28/2016 1:11:15 PM EDT
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The sequel comes out next year you gotta wait til then
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Posted: 8/28/2016 1:13:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You were not brought upon this would to get it. |
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Posted: 8/28/2016 1:13:44 PM EDT
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Can someone please explain the conclusion to this movie? I just don't get it Sheriff retired since the job was a young mans game. Bored out of his skull since there is no country for old men. Also note almost all the younger people in the movie get killed, except for crazy impossibly suppressed shot gun man. |
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Posted: 8/28/2016 1:13:45 PM EDT
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Oh yeah........
Another thread on this movie  "site:ar15.com XXXX" XXXX = the topic you think has never been covered before |
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Posted: 8/28/2016 1:14:53 PM EDT
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It's no country for old men +1 |
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Posted: 8/28/2016 1:15:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryCause the movie sucked ass no matter how much people try to say otherwise. |
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Posted: 8/28/2016 1:18:14 PM EDT
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Cause the movie sucked ass no matter how much people try to say otherwise. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Cause the movie sucked ass no matter how much people try to say otherwise. Just curious, how do you feel about other Cohen brothers movies? |
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Posted: 8/28/2016 1:18:55 PM EDT
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He had a quarter the whole time.
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Posted: 8/28/2016 1:20:23 PM EDT
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As I said the last time this thread showed up:
The good guys don't always win, sometimes the villain gets away scott free, and taking large amounts of money that don't belong to you is probably a bad idea. Also, "you can't stop what's coming" might be referring to the demographic change of the southwest. |
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Posted: 8/28/2016 1:20:45 PM EDT
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Anton Chigur is your typical sociopath.
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Posted: 8/28/2016 1:24:35 PM EDT
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Can someone please explain the conclusion to this movie? I just don't get it The ending was that it wasn't a cat and mouse story between someone with a bag of money and a hit man. It was actually the story about an old cop reminiscing about old age and the "hit man" thread was a side story meant to accentuate the old cop's story. When the old cop retired, all the other story threads came to an end. |
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Posted: 8/28/2016 1:25:34 PM EDT
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OP, Keep running that mouth of yours... I'm gonna take you in the back and screw you.
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Posted: 8/28/2016 1:26:43 PM EDT
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Disagree. Awesome film, one of the best villians ever. The sad truth? Its too deep a film, and has messages about good and evil in it, and about 95% of Americans are too stupid to follow them. No offense meant to OP, as I too had to research the ending when I first saw it to be sure my take was correct. Stupid? No, loved it, and wanted to check my take.
I started all of my 11th grade history classes this year with a quote from Alexandr Solzhenitsyn about evil cutting through the heart of all humans, then transitioned into the song 'Sympathy for the Devil', which I made them listen to after we had as a class studied the lyrics and discussed them. 90% of kids had never heard the song, and easily 95% hated it. Wanted to start class with the point that we would be studying a lot of evil, and a lot of moments in time when humans did evil things to each other out of hatred, and how it was HUMANS doing the evil in the end, devil influence or not, and that they all needed to keep an open mind as we went further into the semester. Few really got it. Maybe if Mick had simply written FUCK over and over, as the only lyrics, maybe kids would love it. Too many mindless, unintelligent people in this country now. |
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Posted: 8/28/2016 1:29:38 PM EDT
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Guy made a promise, kept it.
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Posted: 8/28/2016 1:31:42 PM EDT
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He fixes the cable. Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey. |
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Posted: 8/28/2016 1:34:18 PM EDT
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And then I woke up.
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Posted: 8/28/2016 1:35:19 PM EDT
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I took it as a statement "If you're going to take money from resourceful, ruthless people....don't be an unsophisticated, ignorant bumpkin".
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Posted: 8/28/2016 1:38:49 PM EDT
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The sequel comes out next year you gotta wait til then It'll be a reboot sequel in which all the 'stars' are female along with at least one gay and a trannie as the protagonist. 
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Posted: 8/28/2016 1:40:39 PM EDT
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I took it as a statement "If you're going to take money from resourceful, ruthless people....don't be an unsophisticated, ignorant bumpkin". Whatcha got ain't nothin new. This country's hard on people, you can't stop what's coming, it ain't all waiting on you. That's vanity |
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Posted: 8/28/2016 1:42:47 PM EDT
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Disagree. Awesome film, one of the best villians ever. The sad truth? Its too deep a film, and has messages about good and evil in it, and about 95% of Americans are too stupid to follow them. No offense meant to OP, as I too had to research the ending when I first saw it to be sure my take was correct. Stupid? No, loved it, and wanted to check my take. I started all of my 11th grade history classes this year with a quote from Alexandr Solzhenitsyn about evil cutting through the heart of all humans, then transitioned into the song 'Sympathy for the Devil', which I made them listen to after we had as a class studied the lyrics and discussed them. 90% of kids had never heard the song, and easily 95% hated it. Wanted to start class with the point that we would be studying a lot of evil, and a lot of moments in time when humans did evil things to each other out of hatred, and how it was HUMANS doing the evil in the end, devil influence or not, and that they all needed to keep an open mind as we went further into the semester. Few really got it. Maybe if Mick had simply written FUCK over and over, as the only lyrics, maybe kids would love it. Too many mindless, unintelligent people in this country now. Damn you sound like an awsome teacher, wish my history teacher was like you. |
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Posted: 8/28/2016 1:51:55 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/28/2016 1:55:35 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
The ending was that it wasn't a cat and mouse story between someone with a bag of money and a hit man. It was actually the story about an old cop reminiscing about old age and the "hit man" thread was a side story meant to accentuate the old cop's story. When the old cop retired, all the other story threads came to an end. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Can someone please explain the conclusion to this movie? I just don't get it The ending was that it wasn't a cat and mouse story between someone with a bag of money and a hit man. It was actually the story about an old cop reminiscing about old age and the "hit man" thread was a side story meant to accentuate the old cop's story. When the old cop retired, all the other story threads came to an end. Yep, the story is about the Sheriff, nothing more. |
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Posted: 8/28/2016 2:01:13 PM EDT
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Watching the ending of NCFOM be like...
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Posted: 8/28/2016 2:01:34 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/28/2016 2:02:21 PM EDT
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Chigurh broke the "rules" and fate punished him. The girl never called the flip but he killed her anyways.
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Posted: 8/28/2016 2:02:25 PM EDT
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It's amazing that a movie that came out 10 years ago still gets like 2 threads a week here.
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Posted: 8/28/2016 2:08:09 PM EDT
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I see dead people
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Posted: 8/28/2016 2:10:26 PM EDT
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As previous posters have said, most likely during the sheriff's younger days, crime had a reason or at least an explanation. The whole movie is about his struggle trying to make sense of the events shown in the subplot (which takes most of the screen time, however it's not the main point of the movie). At the end of the movie he realizes that the events that had come to pass could not be rationalized or explained. It was evil for the sake of evil and he could not relate or understand it and therefore was no longer relevant in his career or this country i.e. No country for old men.
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Posted: 8/28/2016 2:12:57 PM EDT
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You were not brought upon this would to get it. God damn noobs..
Edit: lol I fucked up. Would. |
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Posted: 8/28/2016 2:16:07 PM EDT
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It's an outstanding movie. A lot of Americans have trouble with it and similar movies/TV series because they really dislike non-traditional story lines, plots, and endings. Americans tend to need very clear good guys, bad guys, and endings that wrap everything up and that answer everything.
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Posted: 8/28/2016 2:17:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Disagree. Awesome film, one of the best villians ever. The sad truth? Its too deep a film, and has messages about good and evil in it, and about 95% of Americans are too stupid to follow them. No offense meant to OP, as I too had to research the ending when I first saw it to be sure my take was correct. Stupid? No, loved it, and wanted to check my take. I started all of my 11th grade history classes this year with a quote from Alexandr Solzhenitsyn about evil cutting through the heart of all humans, then transitioned into the song 'Sympathy for the Devil', which I made them listen to after we had as a class studied the lyrics and discussed them. 90% of kids had never heard the song, and easily 95% hated it. Wanted to start class with the point that we would be studying a lot of evil, and a lot of moments in time when humans did evil things to each other out of hatred, and how it was HUMANS doing the evil in the end, devil influence or not, and that they all needed to keep an open mind as we went further into the semester. Few really got it. Maybe if Mick had simply written FUCK over and over, as the only lyrics, maybe kids would love it. Too many mindless, unintelligent people in this country now. Or maybe 95% of Americans cant stand to suffer through the incoherent ramblings of a blowhard. But Im sure its your version thats right. |
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Posted: 8/28/2016 2:18:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Disagree. Awesome film, one of the best villians ever. The sad truth? Its too deep a film, and has messages about good and evil in it, and about 95% of Americans are too stupid to follow them. No offense meant to OP, as I too had to research the ending when I first saw it to be sure my take was correct. Stupid? No, loved it, and wanted to check my take. I started all of my 11th grade history classes this year with a quote from Alexandr Solzhenitsyn about evil cutting through the heart of all humans, then transitioned into the song 'Sympathy for the Devil', which I made them listen to after we had as a class studied the lyrics and discussed them. 90% of kids had never heard the song, and easily 95% hated it. Wanted to start class with the point that we would be studying a lot of evil, and a lot of moments in time when humans did evil things to each other out of hatred, and how it was HUMANS doing the evil in the end, devil influence or not, and that they all needed to keep an open mind as we went further into the semester. Few really got it. Maybe if Mick had simply written FUCK over and over, as the only lyrics, maybe kids would love it. Too many mindless, unintelligent people in this country now. Agree. OP, you should have posted your question in the Team forum. No surprise on type of answers you got.
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Posted: 8/28/2016 2:20:18 PM EDT
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It's in the title of the movie, OP.
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Posted: 8/28/2016 2:20:48 PM EDT
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He liked mustard on his taters
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Posted: 8/28/2016 2:21:42 PM EDT
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Tommy Lee Jones best role?
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Posted: 8/28/2016 2:21:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
As previous posters have said, most likely during the sheriff's younger days, crime had a reason or at least an explanation. The whole movie is about his struggle trying to make sense of the events shown in the subplot (which takes most of the screen time, however it's not the main point of the movie). At the end of the movie he realizes that the events that had come to pass could not be rationalized or explained. It was evil for the sake of evil and he could not relate or understand it and therefore was no longer relevant in his career or this country i.e. No country for old men. But it had always been that way. "And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and he was fixin' to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold, and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up..." No one's going on ahead to take care of you. No one, except you, will be there. That's how it's always been in that country, and what he found with Chigurh wasn't anything new, as Ellis told him. It was plain vanity for him to think that there was some explanation for it all waiting for him out there. "And then I woke up." That's it. The sudden realization that he was all there was. |
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Posted: 8/28/2016 2:25:19 PM EDT
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That is one bad ass movie. It's one of the few movies I own on Blu ray. It was on tv the other night as I was going to bed and I ended up watching the whole thing.
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Posted: 8/28/2016 2:25:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Or maybe 95% of Americans cant stand to suffer through the incoherent ramblings of a blowhard. But Im sure its your version thats right. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Disagree. Awesome film, one of the best villians ever. The sad truth? Its too deep a film, and has messages about good and evil in it, and about 95% of Americans are too stupid to follow them. No offense meant to OP, as I too had to research the ending when I first saw it to be sure my take was correct. Stupid? No, loved it, and wanted to check my take. I started all of my 11th grade history classes this year with a quote from Alexandr Solzhenitsyn about evil cutting through the heart of all humans, then transitioned into the song 'Sympathy for the Devil', which I made them listen to after we had as a class studied the lyrics and discussed them. 90% of kids had never heard the song, and easily 95% hated it. Wanted to start class with the point that we would be studying a lot of evil, and a lot of moments in time when humans did evil things to each other out of hatred, and how it was HUMANS doing the evil in the end, devil influence or not, and that they all needed to keep an open mind as we went further into the semester. Few really got it. Maybe if Mick had simply written FUCK over and over, as the only lyrics, maybe kids would love it. Too many mindless, unintelligent people in this country now. Or maybe 95% of Americans cant stand to suffer through the incoherent ramblings of a blowhard. But Im sure its your version thats right.  You can find detailed, deep messages in ANYTHING if you look hard enough. And most of the time it's entirely unintentional on the part of the writer. It's the same reason why two different people can watch a movie and come away with diametrically opposed conclusions on what it meant. |
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Posted: 8/28/2016 2:28:49 PM EDT
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Whatcha got ain't nothin new. This country's hard on people, you can't stop what's coming, it ain't all waiting on you. That's vanity Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I took it as a statement "If you're going to take money from resourceful, ruthless people....don't be an unsophisticated, ignorant bumpkin". Whatcha got ain't nothin new. This country's hard on people, you can't stop what's coming, it ain't all waiting on you. That's vanity It's a fairly common theme in movies and books that bad/tough guys are unstoppable. That there's nothing you can do to defend yourself and will eventually lose no matter what. NCFOM was a prime example (although I still enjoyed the movie). I've always like the saying: There ain't many things you cannot fix with a forty five and a thirty-aught-six. 
ETA: I'd not really thought of much deeper meaning to the movie. I thought the sherriff was talking about his dad in the afterlife. But I guess what you said makes sense, too. I got much more of the "behind the words" deeper meaning in reading The Road than NCFOM. |
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Posted: 8/28/2016 2:30:12 PM EDT
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Chigurh broke the "rules" and fate punished him. The girl never called the flip but he killed her anyways. The flip was giving her a way out. He'd already promised to kill her and it was out of the kindness of his heart that he offered her the flip. |
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