The Price of Murder

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It is interesting that once he comes on the scene there is greed seems to kick in. You know like he doesn't strike me as the kind who would be that callous to somebody but he knows that there must be money and it's like he gets singularly focused on finding it. And then like he's very competently kind of puts himself in the position of this guy. I think in the movie you get the sense that he loves her. Yeah for sure.

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]