No country for old men? what!?!?

I've heard theories that touch on this.

here are a few things that might help you.

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The three main characters, Moss, Bell, and Chigurh, do not share any screen time together.

The only character to talk to all three main characters is Carla Jean ('Kelly Macdonald ).

Luella couldn't be a younger version of him because he dies!

The dream he was talking about at the end of the movie confused me.

The story is not a dream and Luella is not a younger version of Sheriff Bell. Ill try to explain what I think the movie is all about:

Just to refresh your memory and mine of the end scene, I've included this first paragraph:

"As Chigurh (the killer) walks away from the scene of his car accident with a badly broken arm, the film closes with Bell at home, in retirement reflecting on his life choices. Bell relates to his wife (Tess Harper) two dreams he had, both involving his deceased father, also a lawman. He reveals briefly that in the first dream he lost 'some money' that his father had given him; in the second dream, he and his father were riding horses through a snowy mountain pass. His father, who was carrying fire in a horn, quietly passed by Bell with his head down and was 'going on ahead, and fixin' to make a fire' in the surrounding dark and cold. When Bell got there, his father would be waiting. Bell closes the dream narrative, and the film, with the final words: "And then I woke up." (Source: Wikipedia)

In other words, Bell has decided he doesn't want to be part of this new world, where criminals like Chigurh and the Mexican gang are so relentlessly violent, out of proportion with necessity. His father died as a lawman at an age younger than Bell is now, and Bell, in the end, chooses not to die senselessly in this new era. In the dream, his father passed by him out into the darkness, already dead, and he's waiting for Bell to join him by the fire out in that vast unknown of whatever comes after life.

The last few scenes in the movie really sums up the movie's intent: I think that Sheriff Bell realizes that crime (evil) in our society will always be among us. A lawman (like himself and his father and his grandfather) can spend his (or her) whole life chasing "the bad guys" across the desert, in the dark and the cold until they are old and worn out, and then they must concede to a younger, more energetic and savvy police team to step in. That's how most crimes are effectively solved--even back 20-some years ago when this story supposedly took place. Remember when Bell's friend Ellis asks Bell, "Why are you quittin'?" Bell says, "I feel over-matched". In other words, he struggles to face the sheer enormity of the crimes he is attempting to thwart. Ellis replies: "This country is hard on people. Can't stop what's comin'. It ain't all waiting on you. That's vanity." Again, the idea is that Bell is too old for the job at hand, i.e., fighting unstoppable evil and feeling that he should still be chasing Chigurh. Thus, the title: "No country for old men"--a line taken from a Yeates poem, published in 1928. Too, after all that hard effort and years of pursuing the criminals, the bad guys will sometimes simply walk away and never be caught. Evil will rise up again and again. That discouraging fact just has to be accepted. It looked as if Anton Chigurh was able to get up and walk away again, only to be pursued another day.

This is one of those rare movies in which the ending is not tied up with a neat, little bow. I thought it was a really good movie--maybe NOT worthy of Best Picture.

that movie was deep

heres what it was about:

basically it was all symbolic

no country for old mean (the title) means that no matter what things get worse, and the old men of our time can't accept just how bad things are, just as we will get older, we wont comprehend it either

the coen brothers are truly brilliant

the idea is that javier bardem(bad guy) represents the corruption of the world... and no matter how much tommy lee jone will chase him and figure things out about him, he will never completely understand just how bad this man can be.

we also learn though that the bad guy is not invincable, but he is recoverable (like our world.. things can change.. but they dont and they choose not to)

its hard to explain but thats what it is. its completely symbolic

no country for old men means that as time goes by, we get old, things get worse, and we realise that suddenly we don't belong somewhere we dont recognize since things are so bad