Woody Harrelson and Shagura

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The difficulty that i have in figuring out what shagura's motivations are and what kind of a killer he is. Maybe he is just the leviathan of of the sheriff's imagination umYeah or some opaque new form of evil that we can't understand which i think the movie is pretty effective at suggesting too. He has principles but what they are might not be something that like a normal person can understand yeah you can't work it out.

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]