'No Country for Old Men' profiles - (Directed by the Coen Brothers)

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(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Country_for_Old_Men)


Sherif Bell (Old county sherif, humbled, religious)
Sherif Bell represents the attachment to the old ways, he is in a sense trapped in an outdated mindset that he is genuinely terrified to live without. I believe, his presence in the film infers the inevitability death and the futility of trying to revert back to a time of youthful happiness, in a sense i find that his character is merely a sad, tired old husk that has lost its purpose, he is not active and he cannot win and that is the disparity that accompanies mortality.



Anton Chigurh (Hitman, Mystery, foreign)
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Chigurh)

Anton Chigurh is a terrifying character who I personally believe represents the presence of death, being both alien and unbeatable, his entire personality is that he has none, he is a man without a background or family and all we are given about him is his name and a warning, inferring that he plays beyond the grasp of common men and in turn is unrelatable and unknown.



Llewellyn Moss (Vietnam war veteran, welder, generic hero, american)
Llewellyn Moss is the generic hero of the story, he comes upon a large sum of uncollected drug money but ultimately runs out of luck when he finds out that Anton is on his tail with a bloodlust that cannot be sated. I believe that Llewellyn represents the basic instinct to survive, in turn becoming identifiable as the frailty of life and the vulnerability that manifests itself as man kind.

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