No Country For Old Men

[perth]

Spoiler follows:
While Chigurh and Moss get most of the screen time, I think the movie is ultimately about Sheriff Bell, and his inability to adapt to specifically modern criminals, but more generally, modern times. A lot of his monologue focuses on comparing different times, expressing confusion and frustration over people's behaviour in the present.

So while the hunt is important to the movie, I think its importance lies in keeping the movie interesting and not in providing the meat of the story. Sheriff Bell's slowly unfolding failure is the real story. It's not as exciting as silenced shotguns, bags of money and buckets of blood but it *means* a lot more. And I guess that's why I enjoyed the ending - Bell's efforts were essentially futile, and the final part of the movie is him recognising and accepting that.