okay so i don't really get the ending to "no country for old men"

[Doggystylin]

To have no score and have such movie is ridiculous. Coen brothers gotta be some cocky motherfuckers to think they can pull something like that off but they did.

[big mat]

To have no score and have such movie is ridiculous. Coen brothers gotta be some cocky motherfuckers to think they can pull something like that off but they did.

yeah i noticed that, we watched the movie in family and it strucked me at the end generic

[Don Jacob]

wow i didn't even notice that there was no music. that's awesome.

[Don Jacob]

someone on youtube wrote this about the ending....it makes sense

It's symbolic (as anyone who knows anything about dream interpretation would know). It's about a man (Sheriff Ed Tom) unwilling to confront evil. The best he can do (as most of America) is sit back and bemoan the loss of a so-called more innocent world. His father was willing to confront that evil (on that evil's own terms). It most likely led to his early death. But as long as we are blinded by greed or nostalgia, we will never defeat our enemies. Our enemies will never stop until they win.

PS. And when I say "win", I mean achieve their objective or as Chigurh would have seen it, "reached his destiny". Neither Sheriff Tom nor Llewelyn Moss attempted to understand their enemy, they simply tried to outwit him. The book, an analogy for misadventures in Vietnam, also holds a pertinent allegory for our misadventures in Iraq. Know your enemy or succumb to your fate. Just because Llewelyn stumbled unto a situation, and then took greedy advantage of it, does not absolve him from guilt.