No Country For Old Men - a question!!

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tran

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I watched this last night and am a little perplexed.

Can someone please explain the ending to me??

I didn't get Tommy Lee Jones' character talking about a dream he had about his Dad and any significance it had to the film??

I was very tired yesterday and although I really enjoyed the film my concentration wasn't all that I guess??

So what did I miss?? :o
 
I'd like to know this too actually!

I absolutely loved the film but the ending ruined it slightly for me. I didn't understand the final scene at all :o Then it ended!
 
I was at a loss to see the point of Lee Jones character, from what I remember, it was a while ago.
As for the end, again, from what I remember, he kills Josh Brolins wife... and though it makes it away, with a bad leg (or something) we're left to assume he wouldn't have made it much further, and got what he deserved, or at least got caught too long after, at least thats what I made of it. I do need to re-watch this, it was a while ago now.... good film though.
 
We thought we had a faulty DVD :eek: :D

But yep great film - dodgy ending!!



The "baddy" did indeed get away but the final scene was TLJ's character talking about a dream?? Most odd and I didn't get it!!
 
I'm sure that when the film was released the ending was discussed a lot and the point was made that the Coens had been faithful to the original novel, so the ending, however "dodgy", was correct.

Did a quick search and if you enter "No Country" into Google one of the predicted results is "No Country for Old Men Ending" - 117 million results!
 
I think the general point is encapsulated in the title of the movie. That the modern world is a dark place without neat endings, justice and other such notions and no place for old school dreamers.
Or summat or nuffink.
 
It was set in 1980 when crime was suddenly more and more about drugs. Tommy Lee Jones had been a Sheriff for many years and reaching retirement, he realised how much the world had changed since he first started out.

The title did sum up how he felt - it was no country for old men (like him) anymore - he'd had enough - whereas Chigurgh lived to fight another day, so to speak.

That's my understanding of it and even though it may seem like a bit of a feeble ending, I don't know how else it could be done. It did sum up the changing world at that time.
 
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