The Power of Shagura

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Shagura is literally shooting like sniper level shots into the car as it's riding away which just doesn't seem like he had a weapon that could even do that. He's carrying around a shotgun with a silencer on it that's blasting pellets like but he's just knocking all these bullets kills the driver of the car instantly. It really felt to me like there's somebody else shooting and it's supposed to be Shagor so maybe he's just a badass like and Shagor is also really hurt at this point as we'll see. The character for all these other characters is almost Mexican Spanish that's right although I don't get the sense that the evil is only the Mexican

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]