The Killing of Moss in the Hotel Room

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Luellen is your protagonist yeah and it's disheartening the way that they kill him off screen completely off screen there is no farewell to Moss. It's a new kind of movie killing you know happens behind like closed doors off screen I wanted to ask you in this scene where Shagur goes and confronts the big boss man behind the office and he kills him basically mad that he gave the Mexicans also the transceiver.

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]