Abstract
For many viewers of the 2007 Coen Brothers’ film “No Country for Old Men,” the film’s ending left two central puzzles unsolved: what did the ending mean? Who (or what) was Chigur? This essay offers an answer to both questions and the answers are related. I argue that the ending brings the film to a proper conclusion. To understand the ending and what Sheriff Ed Tom Bell’s dreams symbolize in the film it is necessary to follow the imagery of the fire in the buffalo horn Bell describes in his dream.
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Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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Film, Imagery, Meaning
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