Tommy Lee Jones and the Sheriff

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We get Tommy Lee Jones for the first time as a sheriff and we see mr. W for the firsttime that's so good so good i think the first time i saw this movie i didn't know yeah i've no ideaYeah it does play this interesting role sonically to build suspense you know and it's like doo doy doo doo doe doo doa doo dooing doo doing doo doo doo doos" "I love this scene with that receptionist that he asks where luewellen is she won't give out any information I love this scene," says director Tom Hanks of Shagor.

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]