If you Didn't GET THIS MOVE then you should READ THIS POST

Rating: 8/10 (22 January 2008)

For those who did not "get" this movie or thought the ending sucked or the plot was thin, you simply did not pay close enough attention to the dialog.
If you listen closely to the few words that Ed Tom Bell speaks throughout the film it should become clear that:

The movie is about a dream, Ed Tom Bell's dream about what may have (or did) happened to his father who died in early middle age. Read/listen to the final words of the film carefully:

"Alright then. Two of 'em. Both had my father in 'em . It's peculiar. I'm older now then he ever was by twenty years. So in a sense he's the younger man. Anyway, first one I don't remember to well but it was about meeting him in town somewhere, he's gonna give me some money. I think I lost it. The second one, it was like we was both back in older times and I was on horseback going' through the mountains of a night. Go"in' through this pass in the mountains. It was cold and there was snow on the ground and he rode past me and kept on going'. Never said nothing' going' by. He just rode on past... and he had his blanket wrapped around him and his head down and when he rode past I seen he was carrying' fire in a horn the way people used to do and I could see the horn from the light inside of it. 'Bout the color of the moon. And in the dream I knew that he was going' on ahead and he was fixing' 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."

In the movie, Ed Tom Bell is an older man of about 60-65 years. Here he starts off describing his father by referencing his age - "I'm older now then he ever was by twenty years." - informing the viewer that he died somewhere in the 30-35 year range. Now think back to the image of Llewlyn Moss, the protagonist, with his scruffy hair, ruddy complexion, and abbreviated manner of speech - he represents Ed Tom Bell's image of his father prior to his death!

Notice that he mentions TWO dreams - the first representing the life of Bell's father, and the second representing the death of Bell's father. The first dream was about money, and presumably we have just witnessed that dream through the hunter/hunted struggle over money between Chigurh and Moss. The second dream is representative of the father's procession into the afterlife, riding horseback into the darkness - ahead of Bell (he did die before him) - where he will be awaiting his son's arrival one day.

Wow. That is some motherfuc_king deep shi_t right there. Buy this one for your dad on Father's Day, and hats off to the Coen brothers for another masterpiece.