No Country for Old Men Ending

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No Country for Old Men ends with Bell at home, in retirement, reflecting on his life choices. Bell relates to his wife two dreams he had, both involving his deceased father, also a lawman. He reveals that in the first dream he lost "some money" that his father had given him; in the second dream, he and his father were riding horses through a snowy mountain pass. His father, who was carrying fire in a horn, quietly passed by Bell with his head down and was "going on ahead, and fixin' to make a fire" in the surrounding dark and cold. When Bell got there, his father would be waiting. Bell closes the dream narrative, and the film, with the final words: "And then I woke up."

“No Country for Old Men” reminds us that our existence on this planet is equal parts fulfilling and completely senseless. The ending proves this when one character is suddenly gone, and not in the way anyone would have expected. What we are left with, then is the musings of Jones’ character to try to make sense out of it. It’s perfect.

Many have expressed disappointment about the No Country for Old Men ending. But what would they have had happen instead? Bell killing Anton in a ten minute long shoot out? That would have ruined the film for me. Instead, they have us peer in to the melancholic soul of the Old Man of the movie’s title, the has-been lawman who sipped coffee, ruminated about how awful modern crime ahd become and found solace only in his dreams of a nostalgic daddy. He had nothing left, only the memory of a world where lawman helped people.

If you’re looking for a complete ending to No Country for Old Men, you need to start at the beginning. In here lies the cunning of the film.
If you think about it, Sheriff Bell has come full circle. He starts by expressing his remorse over society’s condition, and is forced to recognize that this condititon has not changed since he was the young sheriff sending the killer off to the chair. At the end, he is much older, wiser and still correct about the glibness of killers, and why they kill.

*Update*

The ending is in reference to Cormac McCarthy’s other novel The Road. Ive read No Country For Old Men and the end of Jones speech is a way of interpretation of the two dreams.

The 1st dream he loses the money his father gives him or he has to send it to him.

But the 2nd is most important its about holding close to your family values his father in the dream. The Sheriff pondered god the world But you cant always look and find God its not always your first option and in his line of work a sheriff whose sees so much He questions what did I live for.

*Update* As for the ending, among other things, it deals with the inevitable transition into obscurity and irrelivance that we all must face as we age.)

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