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Originally Posted by adidasss
Hmm, very good point actually...although they got rid of him near the end which is why I felt a little cheated of a resolution...they sucked me into the whole good vs bad thing to the point where I wanted (and expected) the good guy to win...
Bardem was driving away near the end and then just got hit by a car suddenly...he was injured then walked away after the boy lent him his shirt. I'm sure they wanted to say something with that, I'm just not sure what it was...perhaps the randomness of destiny? One who plays God is ultimately just a figure himself...? I dunno...
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Oh that, I thought there was a car accident with the wife at the McDonalds or something that I'd forgotten.
I don't think the car accident was for adding to the plot. My interpretation was that Javier (again, sorry) needed again to be shown as a ghost. Whats most important in that scene I think is how he refuses medical help, that money is no object and that he just wanders off.
You hear sirens as he does, he keeps eluding the law, he's supposed to be the degradation that the law can't keep up with these days. Remember...
"They say that in the old days some of those guys [sheriffs] didn't even carry guns...I wonder if theres a place for those men today" (or something like that)
I think that was something to show that you can't catch it and end it, it just keeps going. They never show the other car at all, who drove it, those people never get out, it looked as if they just ran a stop sign which might be another show of carelessness in the modern American. That title means everything in this film. The "old men" they refer to came from a time when people had a stronger sense of dignity and civility and thats gone.
Theres a line where one of the officers says something to TLJ in a dinner "I mean he walks right back into a murder scene and kills a former army captain. what kind of sickness is that."
Everything moves toward the same end in this film, everything is reinforcing that one premise. And the lines between "good guy" and "bad guy" are much blurrier than they should be. Brolan stole all the money and weapons. Javier is trying to get his things back. But you'd never call him the "good guy" and I think thats another piece as well.