The Sixth Sensation in Bruce Willis

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In some sense he's he's real and true that they're creating a movie where he might be more symbolic than anything. They don't have to answer the question really whether he's real or not it suffices that he is both this huge symbol of whatever it is that the sheriff is feeling about modern evil rightly or wrongly. In in a movie where there's some action sense it's perfectly pitched it's not full on surreal at all no fact it gets you could get high and you might feel that way like I think there's a chance that if you watch the movie that way you might get into that vibe but I as someone who has watched the movie say certain scenes with his

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]