Movie Review: No Country For Old Men

No County for Old Men The movie I chose to do my reaction paper on was “No Country for Old Men”. “No Country for Old Men” came out in theaters in November of 2007. The movie is about an older man named Llewelyn Moss who will go hunting on an afternoon and finds this aftermath of a drug deal gone bad. Even after the fact that he knows better about taking something that doesn’t belong to him, he cannot resist the cash that was left behind at the drug deal gone bad. During the process of him taking the money, the hunter became the hunted because when a killer named Chigurh picks up his trail by having a tracker inside of the brief case that was holding the money Llewelyn found. Sheriff Bell is a man who obeys by the law and also looks back on and reflects on how the world is evolving and also on a deep dark secret that he has of his own, as he tries to find and protect Llewelyn himself. While Llewelyn is on the run Sheriff Bell is wanting to track him down before he gets killed himself. In the No Country for Old Men, there are three main characters the characters are Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, Llewellyn Moss and Anton Chigurh all of these characters in the movie have different concepts of what morality and ethics mean for their lives. All three of these characters have a different moral code and their actions work
From this moment forward, the movie begins posing questions about the function of fate, chance, and free will, and the extent to which human beings have a choice in the outcomes of their lives. “No Country for Old Men” does not refute the idea of free will. It does, however, recognize the limits. In a large sense, the novel suggests free will can only function within the limits of one’s mortality. We make choices that influence the path of our lives, but ultimately, no matter what route we chose, life ends in