Chigurh walks free

• Following the narrative ellipsis that is CJ's death, the Coen brothers spatial align the audience to Chigurh
• Cuts to MCU in car, with his classic blank expression (villain)
• Eyeline matches of watching the road + looking at boys in the mirror. He appears robotic with only his eyes moving.
• Cuts to profile shot, Javier Bardens performance of strict posture creates this realistic depiction of a psychopath.
• Eyeline match as Chigurh abides by the rules of the roads - the green light - linking to his fatalism that all events are predetermined and inevitable.
• Silence before the crash, and the profile shot as it occurs flips audience expectations emphasising the shock of the pleonastic sound of the crash.
• Chigurh being injured additionally comes as a shock to the audience, he has only been injured previously in planned situations: his character seems to be a master of his own fate: and this is out of his control,
• He trusts outside signals too much. Just as a random coin toss decides the fate of his victims, so does that green light nearly kill him.So because his trust for outside signals is too great, he relied on that green light and nearly lost his life - He too is unfit for the new world.
• In a quiet suburban safe neighbourhood – Chigurh still appearing out of place – evil doesn’t fit anywhere.
• The camera cuts from a CU, to an LS then BEV of the crash: Chigurh should be walking away from his final, perfectly planned murder, but it's violently interrupted.
• Slow pan around the cars, Chigurh struggling out the car blood pouring from his head.
• LA as he struggles to the sidewalk, inhumane as he shows no drastic emotions / physical signs of pain – psychopath. He continues to keep a moderately blank face throughout. 
• The LA pov of boys in SRS with the HA pov of Chigurh suggests a shift of power and a moment of weakness for C.
• Vulnerability. It is unexpected for it to be two boys that Chigurh is weak in front of, this is also a narrative mirroring of when injured moss pays for jacket.
• Anti-capitalism as C pays for the shirt – there is blood on the money = this idea of blood money.
• Diegetic sirens in the background approaching correlate to Chigurh speeding things up ‘just tie it’.
• The boys argue over the money – ‘you still got your damn shirt’, again making a critique on capitalism and money
• Chigurh stumbling away – subversion of cowboy walking into the sunset.
• It is unusual for ‘black hat’ to get away in a typical western
• Poetic aesthetic: a man who has justified so many murders by chalking them up to him simply acting out hard-coded fate (coin toss), comes close to death for no discernible reason beyond sheer chance and bad luck.
• The car wreck at the end is perfect: it's so out of place. It would be justice if he were killed, but as he walks off into the distance , it's just a reminder of the chaos that ultimately guides the story.
• Chigurh escaping with no repercussions for his actions symbolise America being built on murder and greed, the 'typical western' not portrayed because the idea of it is just a myth.