Chagr and the Dog

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"It illustrates what I like about this movie which is somebody could could play with the taking a lot of different directions yeah um okay so here we get an incredible seatYeah that chagr just goes to a little Texco gas station and he's getting a snack and he's filling up his car and the guy behind the counter who must be a character actor but he's been in a bunch of things steals the scene even just with his with his reactions. "I don't think either of us buys that theory but it's an entertaining video like it's a good it's it illustrates what Ilike about this movie."

David and Tamler dive into the Coen brothers’ bleak and beautiful adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s 2005 novel "No Country for Old Men." What’s the underlying philosophy that animates Anton Chigurh? Does he have a code of any kind, or is he just a ghostly symbol of human brutality and a pitiless indifferent universe? Does he represent a new kind of evil or is Sheriff Bell just getting old? What elements, if any, in the film are more dream than reality?

And speaking of moral decline, a new Nature study claims that we have the illusory belief that people are getting worse - but can they really establish that it’s an illusion?

Mastroianni, A. M., & Gilbert, D. T. (2023). The illusion of moral decline. Nature, 1-8.

Mastroianni blog post about the illusion of moral decline

No Country for Old Men (movie) [wikipedia.org]