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* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: Hardly one that splits the story asunder, but still: in the book Chigur kills two Mexicans in the motel. One is on the bed and the other is in the bathroom. But in the film, there's a third Mexican who's in the bathroom. What, exactly, the two Mexicans were doing casually hanging out together in the bathroom together is never elaborated upon.
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It sounds more like a Bittersweet Ending.
* BittersweetEnding: Heavily on the bitter. Not only [[spoiler:is the deuteragonist murdered (off-screen)]], but then [[spoiler:the villain is strongly implied to murder the hero's wife (again, off-screen) and escapes justice, leaving an old man to contemplate his inability to act in the face of so much seemingly pointless violence of the world. On a slightly brighter note, we see that Chigurh is himself not immune to the impartiality of the universe. While he survives the film, he winds up wounded and without his money. The novel also implies that the police are still tracking down Chigurh, indicating that soon he will be caught]].
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* DownerEnding: Not only [[spoiler:is the deuteragonist murdered (off-screen)]], but then [[spoiler:the villain is strongly implied to murder the hero's wife (again, off-screen) and escapes justice, leaving an old man to contemplate his inability to act in the face of so much seemingly pointless violence of the world. On a slightly brighter note, we see that Chigurh is himself not immune to the impartiality of the universe. While he survives the film, he winds up wounded and without his money. The novel also implies that the police are still tracking down Chigurh, indicating that soon he will be caught.]]
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* DisapprovingLook: Creator/TommyLeeJones' famous "Implied Facepalm" given to one of his deputies -- in context, he has just read out a news story about about a serial killing that was sadistic but also surreally comedic, and wryly remarks that the neighbours managed to overlook multiple graves being dug in the garden. Funny or not, he is taken aback when his deputy laughs at this line.
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* DisapprovingLook: Creator/TommyLeeJones' famous "Implied Facepalm" given to one of his deputies -- in context, he has just read out a news story about about a serial killing that was sadistic but also surreally comedic, and wryly remarks that the neighbours managed to overlook multiple graves being dug in the garden. Funny or not, he is taken aback when his deputy laughs at this line.
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* DownerEnding: Not only [[spoiler:is the deuteragonist murdered (off-screen)]], but then [[spoiler:the villain murders the hero's wife (again, off-screen) and escapes justice, leaving an old man to contemplate his inability to act in the face of so much seemingly pointless violence of the world. On a slightly brighter note, we see that Chigurh is himself not immune to the impartiality of the universe. While he survives the film, he winds up wounded and without his money. The novel also implies that the police are still tracking down Chigurh, indicating that soon he will be caught.]]
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* DownerEnding: Not only [[spoiler:is the deuteragonist murdered (off-screen)]], but then [[spoiler:the villain murders is strongly implied to murder the hero's wife (again, off-screen) and escapes justice, leaving an old man to contemplate his inability to act in the face of so much seemingly pointless violence of the world. On a slightly brighter note, we see that Chigurh is himself not immune to the impartiality of the universe. While he survives the film, he winds up wounded and without his money. The novel also implies that the police are still tracking down Chigurh, indicating that soon he will be caught.]]
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** [[spoiler:Chigurh himself; the aftermath of the accident leads to him being grievously injured with a bone sticking out of his leg, and all he can do is tourniquet it and limp away, as he does not want to receive medical treatment lest he be discovered. While he ends the movie alive and kicking, it's entirely possible he eventually succumbs to his injuries, or at the very least has become much easier to track down and apprehend.]]
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** It's never made explicit whether Chigurh killed [[spoiler:the accountant]].
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** It's never made explicit whether Chigurh killed [[spoiler:the accountant]].accountant. It's never truly revealed if he killed Carla Jean either, but his checking his boots after he leaves the house implies that he did]].
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* ArbitraryGunPower: In RealLife, a cattle-gun would barely be able to dent a door-lock, much less blow it completely out of the door.
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* ArbitraryGunPower: In RealLife, a cattle-gun would barely be able to dent a door-lock, much less blow it completely out of the door. It is subtly implied that Chigurh has made a few after-market additions to his captive-bolt gun to soup it up for his purposes.
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* AdaptationalNationality: In the film, Chigurh is played by the Spanish actor Javier Bardem, who has a Spanish accent when speaking English. In the book, Chigurh's nationality is left intentionally vague, but characters are sure that he's not Mexican, and he is never said to have a foreign accent.
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* AdaptationalNationality: In the film, Chigurh is played by the Spanish actor Javier Bardem, who has a Spanish accent when speaking English. In the book, Chigurh's nationality is left intentionally vague, but characters are sure that he's not Mexican, and he is never said to have a foreign accent. Bardem intentionally tried to muddy his accent as much as possible to keep Chigurh's origins obscure for the movie.
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* HardTruthAesop: Delivered to the sheriff near the end of the film: you can't stop bad things. Or more specifically, you can't when you've gotten too old and the world has changed from when you were younger and ''could'' stop them.
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* HardTruthAesop: Delivered to the sheriff by Ellis near the end of the film: you can't stop bad things. Or more specifically, And you especially can't stop bad things when you've gotten too old and the world has changed from when you were younger and ''could'' felt like you could stop them.them...even though you really couldn't back then either.
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* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: Characters do come from different viewpoints and yet in the end there is no one character that comes out on top.
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* ArbitraryGunPower: In RealLife, a cattle-gun would barely be able to dent a door-lock, much less blow it completely out of the door. Though, one could argue that one of the most psychotic and dangerous people ever may have made a few accommodations to his main method of breaking into houses and killing victims.
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* ArbitraryGunPower: In RealLife, a cattle-gun would barely be able to dent a door-lock, much less blow it completely out of the door. Though, one could argue that one of the most psychotic and dangerous people ever may have made a few accommodations to his main method of breaking into houses and killing victims.
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* CelebrityParadox: In the novel, Ed Tom Bell mentions the murder of a federal judge in San Antonio. He's referring to John Howland Wood, who was assassinated outside his townhouse by a contract killer named Charles Harrelson on May 29, 1979. Creator/WoodyHarrelson (yes, the son of Charles) would go on to co-star in the [[Creator/TheCoenBrothers Coen Brothers]]' film.
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* CelebrityParadox: In the novel, Ed Tom Bell mentions the murder of a federal judge in San Antonio. He's referring to John Howland Wood, who was assassinated outside his townhouse by a contract killer named Charles Harrelson on May 29, 1979. Creator/WoodyHarrelson (yes, the (the son of Charles) would go on to co-star appears in the [[Creator/TheCoenBrothers Coen Brothers]]' this film.
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We don't see any evidence of this. Moss is just reckless and overconfident.
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* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Moss mistakenly believes that this is how the world works.
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* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:Chigurh walks off quite badly injured because of a car accident but otherwise he's killed everyone he was hired to kill and then some and it doesn't seem like he will face repercussions]]. It’s even worse in the book, where he not only explicitly gets away but ends up taking over the syndicate’s drug operations. That such things seem to happen more and more in the modern world is what drives Sheriff Bell over the DespairEventHorizon.
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* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:Chigurh walks off quite badly injured because of a car accident but otherwise he's killed everyone he was hired to kill and then some and it doesn't seem like he will face repercussions]]. It’s even worse in the book, where he not only explicitly gets away but ends up taking [[spoiler:succeeds in getting the money and turns it over to the syndicate’s drug operations.head of the Matacumbe Petroleum Group as his resume for future employment]]. That such things seem to happen more and more in the modern world is what drives Sheriff Bell over the DespairEventHorizon.
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* KarmaHoudini: Played with. [[spoiler:Llewelyn's killers get away just as Bell arrives, but he managed to kill one and sent the rest running in fear.]] Later, [[spoiler:Chigurh does kill his wife, but she defies his nonsensical logic. Shortly after, a car slams into him, but he manages to get out (albeit seriously injured) and escape after bribing some kids nearby to keep quiet -- many critics saw this as a clean getaway, but even with his medical knowledge, the injuries he received are not treatable by himself, and are very likely to put him out of commission, if not kill him or make it possible for the police to finally corner him.]]
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* KarmaHoudini: Played with. [[spoiler:Llewelyn's killers get away just as Bell arrives, but he managed to kill one and sent the rest running in fear.]] Later, [[spoiler:Chigurh does kill his Moss' wife, but she defies his nonsensical logic. Shortly after, a car slams into him, but he manages to get out (albeit seriously injured) and escape after bribing some kids nearby to keep quiet -- many critics saw this as a clean getaway, but even with his medical knowledge, the injuries he received are not treatable by himself, and are very likely to put him out of commission, if not kill him or make it possible for the police to finally corner him.]]
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You can't put links under the entire spoiler tag — you need a place people can click on if they want to close it.
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* HeadsOrTails: Anton Chigurh flips a coin to decide whether to kill a potential victim. Those that choose not to take the chance are killed anyway, because they refuse to submit to the PowersThatBe. [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Fans actually debate over the reason why he does it.]] [[spoiler:[[FaceDeathWithDignity Carla Jean refuses to play]], [[ShutUpHannibal refusing to blame the coin or fate for what she believes is her inevitable death -- simply Chigurh]].]]
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* HeadsOrTails: Anton Chigurh flips a coin to decide whether to kill a potential victim. Those that choose not to take the chance are killed anyway, because they refuse to submit to the PowersThatBe. [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Fans actually debate over the reason why he does it.]] [[spoiler:[[FaceDeathWithDignity Carla [[spoiler:Carla Jean [[FaceDeathWithDignity refuses to play]], [[ShutUpHannibal refusing to blame the coin or fate for what she believes is her inevitable death -- simply Chigurh]].]]
