The Procedural Aspect of Luelle

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The procedural aspect of this movie is really fun yeah totally so there's one scene when uh sugar is driving to del Rio where he shoots the pigeon and misses. It's a callback i think to raising Arizona where you know the biker from hell is like shoots at little animals for no reason. There are a couple like the scene of the texago shason is very raising Arizona too like so i think it's that i don't know maybe western bad guy trope to be cruelty animals.

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]