Llewellyn gets a second room because he realizes someone is in or has been in his first room. He uses the map to select one with connecting duct work to his own room to pull the bag out from the other side. The Mexicans are in his room when Chigurh busts in because the transponder led them there but they can’t figure out where the case is.
Why wouldn’t Carla Jean call it?
Anton is a very bad person, there is no denying that. But there is nothing in the movie to suggest that he lies. When he told Carla Jean that he would give her a chance with the coin toss, I believed him. He also seems to have some twisted ethical code. So I think had she called it successfully, he would have let her live just as he did the gas station attendant. Forever. Her speech appealed to him in some way and he changed his mind about his “promise” to Moss. As he stated, “it’s the best I can do”.
Her refusal to call the toss, however noble it may have been, resulted in her death. She opted not to gamble on it, which was her choice.
I think it’s key to imagine her state of mind at this point, and the state of her life. To put it bluntly, at this juncture, from CJ’s POV, life sucks. The things she values most, that gave her life meaning, have been taken from her. She’s just come home from burying her mother. Noticeably, she is left utterly alone in her misery. No one has come back to the house to comfort her, not a single relative or friend.
In addition, despite her doubts CJ had already acquiesced and played by the rules of someone else’s silly game (her husband’s). What had that done for her? Or him? From her POV if she’d refused from the start he might not be dead. Her breaking point came after she talked to her husband by phone and intuited that he was hurt and saw through his bravado that he was in fact way over his head. She then defied his wishes, stopped conforming to the rules of his game, and called Bell for help. And even that failed.
So I think that’s more or less her state of mind when she encounters Chigurh. From her POV, in that moment, she is willing to lose her life, for one thing because it doesn’t seem worth preserving. For another, stifling her own instincts and conforming to the rules of other people’s games have done nothing but strip that life of value. Chigurh is the capper to a string of sh*tty events, and here he is trying to impose the most absurd rule of all, reducing/devaluing what’s left of her miserable existence to nothing but the outcome of a coin flip. So while CJ is willing to give up her life, I think she is unwilling to give up her soul, which I think to her mind, in this moment, is what catering to the absurd rules of Chigurh’s game would entail.
She will not participate on principle. She insists that Chigurh make the choice himself rather than allow him to chalk it up to a choice Carla Jean makes, as she has not been culpable up to this point.
She says it was his choice to do the toss, not hers. That way, she isnt responsible for him killng her. It was pretty smart of her, avoiding that way to have a choice over her life. She didnt want part of that. Also, if she had guessed the toss, he could still kill her. Then and there (as he had promised Llewelyn he’d kill her) or later in her life. She didnt have much choice. And with that in mind, she left the choice to Anton. Just my thoughts.
You do not get it. Its not about him, its not about teaching him a lesson. She knows he will kill her. He places that responsibility in her hands by playing the toss game. That way he can cast the blame for killing her (or not) on her. She does not want that. It is his choice in the first place he uses that game on her. And she alludes to that. She does not want part of it. Him playing the toss game with her life is his choice. He is a psychopath. Psychopats manipulate people. He manipulates her with that game. She does not want responsibility for her own death.
Because she’s calling Chiggurh out on his *beep* The coin toss doesn’t determine whether she lives or dies, Chiggurh does.
You must have been caught in traffic and missed the start of no country. It shows how the coin flip works. At the gas station the owner called it correctly and sugar didn’t kill him.
If cj had called it correctly she would have lived and received a souvenir from sugar.
When she refused to call it and potentially save her own life, sugar shrugged his shoulders and killed her. Cj really showed him.
McCarthy himself has said that Chigurh is “pretty much pure evil.”
CJ feels powerless in the face of the events that lead to the apparent ruining of her life. She was always outside the loop of the events, yet they affected her in a definitive way. She didn’t know what was happening, and like Bell, she didn’t understand why it was happening. All her futile attempts at having a role in the course of the events came short.
‘I had a feeling it wasn’t over yet’ is what she first says when she sees Chigurh in her bedroom, and yet she couldn’t do a thing about it. Appalled by the rules that Chigurh has forced her life to deteriorate by, she refuses to let him dictate the rules of her last moments. This is not to show him anything: if something, he is amused by this. She does this purely for the salvation of her own soul, or what is left of it. Her last action defies his rules and makes it so that it is her own rule, principle and decision what determines her destiny, not this chaotic force in front of her.
Also, the meaning of the coin toss to Chigurh is not to avoid responsibility of murder. The coin toss is a part of his life’s code, where he gives this chance of life to only those who have not by their own actions come to deserve death (by his rules of course). Don’t be fooled: he does not do this for pity, or empathy in the least. He does this because he is a believer in fate, in a sense, and the coin is the fate of those for whom his code can’t decide a fate for.
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That explains why the Chief sees Moss’ emptied bullets on the ground by the pool, and the girl face down in the pool. They opened fire, missed him and hit her, he returned fire and ran.
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by wdement
» Fri Aug 26 2016 05:47:35 Flag ▼ | Reply |
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That’s the point, he was looking for what was coming, but his death was inevitable that even when he saw what was coming he had no chance
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by dmariat55
» Fri Aug 26 2016 06:09:00 Flag ▼ | Reply |
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The reason it is a terrible scene is it makes no sense. The Mexicans don’t want moss dead they need to keep him alive to find out where the money is.
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by wdement
» Fri Aug 26 2016 07:03:40 Flag ▼ | Reply |
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Well they had no choice but to kill him when he came out packing a shotgun
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» Sun Sep 4 2016 12:20:02 Flag ▼ | Reply |
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Moss likely shot first or raised his gun when seeing the Mexicans which sparked them to fire, they shot at Moss near the pool which is why the lady who offered the beer was seen dead in the pool. Moss then ran to his room either wounded or was shot/killed when he got into his room. The Mexicans ran away because they knew the police would be coming soon and one or more of their guys was hit. They likely did not get the money because it was hidden.