In the other, he and his father were riding through a snowy mountain path. In one vision, he remembers losing money his father had given him. Having retired already, Bell contemplates these fears of the future through these two dreams. Sitting in his home, Bell recounts two of his dreams from last night to his wife. It’s a recall of his first few lines, where Bell mentions to his young deputy that they wouldn’t even need to carry guns when his father was a sheriff. This becomes the motif of Bell’s final monologue of the film, where age and the world’s ever-changing circumstances catch up to him. RELATED: Every Best Picture Oscar Winner of the 21st Century Ranked From Worst to Best Chigurh escapes, Moss dies, and the fate of Moss’s wife is left ambiguous. Bell, always arriving too late, ends up becoming what he most feared: dispensable. Chigurh goes after Moss to retrieve the money, and so begins the chase. Instead of going to the authorities, Moss listens to his greed and takes it. After stumbling on a Mexican drug cartel deal gone wrong, Moss comes across a large sum of money. After spending the better part of the film chasing after Josh Brolin’s Llewelyn Moss and Chigurh in the wake of their violent cat and mouse game, Bell is always just one step too far from ever catching up to them. At the end of the film, Bell is a retired sheriff who speculates about the future of law enforcement and the world in general.
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