Film Review: Chigurh And Carson Wells

The scene where everything changes. When Anton Chigurh kills Carson Wells. As far as we know, Anton is hired to retriever that money case, held by Moss, and kill whoever gets in the way, thus explaining the high number of killing during the movie. Wells, a bounty hunter who is hired to kill Chigurh, he’s motivated by logical motives, like money, on the other hand, Anton is simple crazy, having his main motive killing. In this scene, they are both sitting and facing each other, and the air-gun being on Chigurh’s hands. Carson tries to negotiate with him, to see if he could get out alive of this situation, but then again, the only thing that he realizes is that you cannot negotiate with this man, something that he already known. While they’re talking, the phone starts ringing and …show more content…
First, we see the determination of Anton Chigurh, he is really not motivated by any money that Carson Wells may have to offer, because he tries to buy him. He wants that brief case, the first scene show his devotion, and craziness. Chigurh has completely control of this scene, and that’s not only by the fact that he has a gun pointed do Carson during the scene, but by smaller things as well, he is faced left to right, and the way he is talking, he knew how things were going to happen, while in the other hand, Wells was fearing for his live. Like this movie has no soundtrack, there is no music anticipating Carson’s death, instead we have a sign of what is about to happen. When the phone rings, in our last sight of Wells we see him exhaling, of maybe some kind of relief, than the camera focus Chigurh sitting on his chair thinking… Thinking about what to do first, answer the phone, or kill Carson. At this moment, when we might actually think that he will get out alive in some way. Then he looks back at him one last time, and fires silently his gun. He picks up the phone, and talks for the first time with