What The Heck Happened?

Rating: Null/10 (4 June 2008)

Outstanding Acting - CHECK. Breath-taking cinematography - CHECK. Sweeping locales - CHECK. Quirky Humor - DOUBLE CHECK. Edge-of-the-seat Thriller - CHECK-A-ROONIE.
Put it all together and what do you got?
Beats me.
I am sure it's just my perspective as the whole world seemed to love this movie. It is good, and worth the price of admission, but I just didn't get it.
Hey, I have no problem with an open-ended plot where the viewer's imagination takes over and haunts him for the next 6 days. But this movie has loose ends coming out of the woodwork.
After all the graphic violence, why do we never see Llewelyn actually die? Was it his body in the morgue or someone else's?
Did Carlea Jean live or die? I think it's important to the plot development to know.
Who is the dude in the wheelchair and what purpose did he serve? Sheriff Bell could have easily held the same discussion with his wife, so what's the deal?
How did Carson Wells find Llewelyn so quickly? And in Mexico? Whey was he even in the story?
Where was Stephen Root's red stapler?
Like I said, maybe it's me. Maybe I just like to know why stuff happened and at least WHAT happened.
On the up side, the gas station scene has taken over in my brain as the Number 1 Scary Scene from the shower scene in Psycho. "Call it" is now the "in your face" catch phrase.
And if I ever, EVER find a bag of money, I ain't touching it.