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Originally Posted by cacophony
i think it's odd that you "rooted" for chigurh. i don't know that any of the characters were presented in such a protagonist-like role. i think the point with chigurh is that he was inexplicable, unfathomable, and set on his path with an inevitability that even he didn't seem capable of explaining. if i felt anything for chigurh, i felt pity. it was as if his obsession with coins illustrated that he could comprehend nothing but the inevitability of the way coins travel. and even that comprehension was tenuous as illustrated by his confrontation with carson wells, who questioned whether chigurh understood how truly crazy he was.
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I don't know if "rooting" is the right word, I think Chigurgh was not human (not literally, but what he represents) but he was basically death itself, something you can't escape from. Chigurgh did not have it's own intent, he didn't kill for personal reasons, dying by his hands was as inpersonal as dying on an earthquake or a car accident or most forms of death really, he was basically a tool of randomness itself? I didn't feel pity as I basically saw him as more non-human than human and liking him for that reason. I was rooting for him in the sense of I wanted him to be unstopable, this idealized tool of destruction and not just another human character that can fail.
I am still unsure what his character means in the overall message of the film though, or the car accident at the end? Basically I feel there is some message about inevitability and random pain/death/suffering but I also feel there is something more I am missing.