The Coen Brothers' True Grit

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Tommy Lee Jones's performance is phenomenal and in a way that's so understated but his face at the end like I don't care what he's saying about the dreams as much as I care how he's expressing himself. The Coen brothers have shown a talent of translating that into the screen it makes me want to see them do that more. They're like you know aside from maybe Scorsese if you just look at the quantity of just a movie that they've done it's like it's freaking unbelievable. Join us next time on Grey Bets.

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]