When the Killer of the Road, do not need a cause for to act as he use to.

Rating: 9/10 (4 February 2008)

NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (Dir: Coen Bros, 2007)
When the Killer of the Road, do not need a cause for to act as he use to.
Rafael J. Salin-Pascual
The idea of evil, without a cause, is subversive, and hundred percent produces in a pretty good amount of people negative emotions. But in fact, it is more often to find that in serial killers. That is what psychologist, that are working in aggression have found out: They killed without any remorse and without a cause other than to feel-good.
There are three men in this excellent film of Coen Bros., Anton, the killer, the sheriff (Tommy Lee Jones) and the poor chaser that ended being a prey, Llewlyn Moss (Josh Brolin).The excellence of this film are the solid way in which each one of the three people are developed. One may say that they represent three visions of deal with life. Anton is the predator, the primitive way of deal with the others: "With me or against me" without mercy, selfish. Llewelyn, is the practical man, taking whatever opportunity is available, risk as part of the challenges the life offer us, sometimes you may win or you may die. The third character, happens to be a collection of roles,. The Sheriff is the representative personage of the law, he enforced, but also is a wise guy. He knows when should be calm and when you need to move. He is also the one that detected, since the beginning of the film, there are evil people, that kill without a reason. His voice in off give us several points of their philosophy of life. He describes a teenage killer he once sent to the chair. The boy had killed his 14-year-old girlfriend. The papers described it as a crime of passion, "but he told me there weren't nothing passionate about it. Said he'd been fixing to kill someone for as long as he could remember. Said if I let him out of there, he'd kill somebody again. Said he was going to hell.
The fascination that ordinary people have with such roles like Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem); "Mr Brooks"(2007) (Kevin Costner); or "Death Proof" from Tarantino, with the main character Stunt Mike (Kurt Rusell) a real killer of the road, are in some way to understand that they have the capability for to control the animal instincts. Some of those killers, that was mentioned above, are similar with Michael Myers, in Carpenter's Halloween who returns to his home town on Halloween night to stalk and kill a group of babysitters. They never defeated, and never died.
Obviously there is no reason for Anton to kill so many people, but in fact there is at least one: "They saw him". That is what he asked to same people that escape of this dark angel. Anton has his own rules, and he used, besides guns a cylinder with air at high-pressure, he used that for to kill people like cattle. Anton main goal in the film is chasing to one man, Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin), who happens to be in the right place at the right time and by that "recover" some money from a massacre place I a fatal delivery of drugs, by doing that, Llewelyn accept, to enter this mortal game running away from a real predator.
The Sheriff, Tommy Lee Jones, and deputies, are amazing about the lack of emotional resonance of Barden. The killers without any cause, has became attractive business for the movie industry, but also and easy explanation of our deep and amoral instincts, that culture has try to deal with them. So we can see that even civilize and "normal people" like Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) in "Match Point" (2005, Woody Allen) could become a killer, with and clear cause. It is clear know, that there are some circuits inside the killers' brain or sociopaths, that are no working properly, so what ever the education, economical level, or any other factors, there is no reason other than the lack of a kind of break that stop "the killing machine", that we all carry inside our brain.
What is the explanation for to say that old man do not belong, in some way, to the kind of country, like the one in which killer without cause live in. In my opinion, the moral values. I am not describing that from moralistic point of view; also I am not trying to say that old people are on a higher position, from moral values than new generations, The differences are, exactly that some people do not need reason for to kill somebody. Old people use to create a confabulation theory, a justification for their criminal acts, Iraq's war, is a good example of that way of thinking. "We were looking for weapons of massive destruction". That war it is full of those explanation. That difference, between to create an explanation, that result in a confabulation for criminal actions or not to need at least one, that is the Country that result beyond of old people moral values. Socrates, an old man, once say: "Bad men do, what good men dream." And movies are like dreams, or dreams are the cinema of the mind.