The Case of Anton Shagor

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It's very hard to know what the motivation is because you can't believe that he actually thinks that he's gonna offer comfort to anybody. One candidate is that he just felt guilty about what an asshole he was so he's going back out there. He does bring a gallon of water like right and he does check on the guy. But when he goes back he gets he gets found by I guess some other Mexicans looking for the money who you know they're looping over the hill in these four by eighties four by four trucks with the big ol big ol lights. A pretty scary chasing ensues it's in the dark and he's being chased and shot at and narrowly escapes by jumping

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]