NCFOM and representation

• NCFOM and representation

  Representation of women - Patriarchal movie - Carla-Jean presented as a princess who needs to be saved, her mother is presented as a comedic parody through the dialogue "I've got the cancer" and the woman near the pool is sexualised via her costume of the bikini - Zoonen's trope of women as either mothers, virgins or whores
• NCFOM and representation

  Representation of race - Mexicans. Mexicans are represented as drug dealers and like their lives don't matter. "Oh hells bells they even shot the dog", "This looks like a drug deal gone wrong doesn't it" and "I ain't got no aqua". Carla-jeans mother = "You don't often see a Mexican in a suit"
• NCFOM and representation

  Representation of Age - Bell is the embodiment of the title. He's old fashioned, law-abiding, faithful to his wife - his opening monologue tells us that his ancestors didn't even carry a gun. When Bell goes to visit Ellis, he talks about how he can't catch up with the amount of evil nowadays, ("I feel overmatched") and how he expected "God to come into my life somehow". He also comments on the fact that he feels "20 years older then he ever was" reffering to his dad in the end sequence
• NCFOM and representation.

  Chigurh is the embodiment of post 9-11 terror, and Llewelyn is the symbol of capitalistic greed. Ed Tom Bell is trying to combat this.
• NCFOM and representation

  Foreigners represented as an invasion - Chigurhs ambiguity over his race, Mexicans represented as drug dealers and Ellis' story about Uncle Mac receiving his 'reward' by being shot by Indians "after a while they said something in Indian"
• NCFOM and stereotypes

  Representation of Mexicans - seen as drug-dealers and as a 'threat' - through the mise-en-scene of the drug deal that has gone wrong, the stereotypical performance and mise-en-scene (costume) of singing Mexicans and the casual racism aimed towards them by Carla-Jeans mother "Its not often you see a Mexican in a suit"
• NCFOM and stereotypes

  Anti-stereotype of evil not having a moral code - Chigurh uses the prop of the coin to decide life and death - Coin toss scene and Carla-Jeans death
• NCFOM and stereotypes

  Stereotypical representation of women - Zoonen's mother, virgin, whore trope - Carla Jean = whiny virgin wife, Carla-Jeans mother = comedic parody + mother - "I've got the cancer" and whore near the pool trying to seduce Lleweyln
• The film’s title, taken from an Irish poem by WB Yeats, suggests that the old ways are no longer effective against the new threat. This is reflected in Sheriff Bell’s struggle with his own morality and how it relates to the changing times. He reflects on the past when people were more honest and straightforward, but now things have changed and become more complex.