How Does Chigurh Build Suspense

• Giving the audience more knowledge than the characters on screen builds the suspense immensely. When Chigurh comes up behind the police officer in the beginning of the film the officer is unaware of what is happening behind him or what is going to happen, but the audience can see Chigurh coming closer and closer and can anticipate that Chigurh is going to kill the officer.
Another instance where this happens is when Chigurh asks the shopkeeper to call a coin, this creates suspense because the audience knows what the character is calling it for but the character doesn’t know that it’s actually for his life.
In the hotel scene later in the film Moss is sitting alone in a dark room waiting, with Chigurh outside in the hotel hallway, this is also a form of giving the audience more knowledge than the characters on screen because as the audience have seen Chigurh’s preferred way of entering a room, they know if Chigurh is going to enter the hotel room through the door, how is going to do it but Moss is unaware of Chigurh’s conventions.
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This builds anticipation.
• In the scene where Moss is sitting alone in a hotel room, where he now knows how Chigurh keeps finding him, through a tracker in one of the bill stacks, Moss hears footsteps slowly coming down the hallway of the hotel and the tracker's beeping getting louder and louder. This creates suspense in two ways, the first way is because of the footsteps the audience is now wondering if Chigurh is going to walk past the hotel room or is he going to find Moss. The second way is with the tracker’s beeping getting louder and louder, the audience is wondering what is Moss’s actions going to be now, is he going to flee through the window behind him or is he going to stay and