The film “No Country for Old Men” describes in West Texas in the 1980s. Because of the evil (a fail drug deal) invasion of calm town, it results in a cat-and-mouse chase story of people’s. They chase each other all because of money from drug deal. Llewelyn Moss is a poor white former Vietnam veteran. Anton Chigurh has a mushroom head and carries a fire extinguisher new weapon like a killer. Sheriff Ed Tom Bell is an old sergeant in west Texas. The killer Anton Chigurh is a good example to express the psychoanalytic criticism on fear of intimacy, no fear of rick, and his personalities. In the book “criticism of critical theory today” by Lois Tyson, it stated that “fear of intimacy-the chronic and overpowering feeling that emotional closeness
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Based on this quote, I think that one of reasons is cleanliness that causes fear of intimacy. Anton Chigurh does not want to close the things that he thinks are dirty; he thinks himself very different from others. In other words, he thinks that he is much more “clean” than others are. This is why later on he thinks that he can be a judge from god to make decision whether or not people die. The killer generally in our mind must be bedraggled, no shower for month. However, Anton’s hair is neat; clothes are clean. He does not look like killer. From the movie, we can see his third shot at the motel Mexicans due to in a close distance. He pulled the shower curtain to prevent from spilling blood; he shot the killer Carson in a hotel after the blood flows to Eagles’ feet on the ground. He immediately raised his feet to avoid the bloodstains. He had killed his wife after moss out of time, specifically looked to see if his two feet were stained with blood. Another reason is that he likes to be alone. From the …show more content…
Moreover, he did not even worry about if police would catch him; he would kill whoever needed to be killed in his mind. From the book, “our fear of death, of losing our life, can results in our fear attached to life. when you have nothing, you have nothing to loss. The fear of life also be played out as a fear of risk” (Tyson 23). Anton does everything in the film by himself; he can easily kill someone on the road without any tension. He looks like very bold, relax, and quietly. However, all he did was because he did not fear death. From the film, we can see that he had no family, friends, and money. He did not socialize with normal people to talk about the goals to achieve, such as money, better life, love, and so on. He simply lived in this world; he just followed his feeling or his own rule to live in this world. That is why he can take the risk to kill people repeatedly; to him, that is not taking risk at all. According to the book, “this desire not to feel, desire to insulate ourselves from life in order to insulate ourselves from pain, is most common form of death work” (Tyson 26). Maybe Anton decided to be alone because he feared that someone would hurt him, so he could avoid pain. He killed everyone by air gun, and it meant that he liked to be quite. He insulated himself. For example, in the film, his
Based on this quote, I think that one of reasons is cleanliness that causes fear of intimacy. Anton Chigurh does not want to close the things that he thinks are dirty; he thinks himself very different from others. In other words, he thinks that he is much more “clean” than others are. This is why later on he thinks that he can be a judge from god to make decision whether or not people die. The killer generally in our mind must be bedraggled, no shower for month. However, Anton’s hair is neat; clothes are clean. He does not look like killer. From the movie, we can see his third shot at the motel Mexicans due to in a close distance. He pulled the shower curtain to prevent from spilling blood; he shot the killer Carson in a hotel after the blood flows to Eagles’ feet on the ground. He immediately raised his feet to avoid the bloodstains. He had killed his wife after moss out of time, specifically looked to see if his two feet were stained with blood. Another reason is that he likes to be alone. From the …show more content…
Moreover, he did not even worry about if police would catch him; he would kill whoever needed to be killed in his mind. From the book, “our fear of death, of losing our life, can results in our fear attached to life. when you have nothing, you have nothing to loss. The fear of life also be played out as a fear of risk” (Tyson 23). Anton does everything in the film by himself; he can easily kill someone on the road without any tension. He looks like very bold, relax, and quietly. However, all he did was because he did not fear death. From the film, we can see that he had no family, friends, and money. He did not socialize with normal people to talk about the goals to achieve, such as money, better life, love, and so on. He simply lived in this world; he just followed his feeling or his own rule to live in this world. That is why he can take the risk to kill people repeatedly; to him, that is not taking risk at all. According to the book, “this desire not to feel, desire to insulate ourselves from life in order to insulate ourselves from pain, is most common form of death work” (Tyson 26). Maybe Anton decided to be alone because he feared that someone would hurt him, so he could avoid pain. He killed everyone by air gun, and it meant that he liked to be quite. He insulated himself. For example, in the film, his