Chigurh blows up car / cleans his injury

Cards (6)

  • Anti-capitalism = Chigurh has to blow up the car to distract the people around him, so that he can steal the medication he requires to treat his injuries and continue his criminal activities.
  • Sense of vulnerability when we are first aligned with him, he is struggling to catch Moss, Moss has hurt him.
  • The Coen brothers could be making a comment on the American Health system and price of medical supplies that are there to save peoples lives.
  • MS on boot as he takes it off, blood pouring out of it.
  • Symbolic as his boots are one part of his costuming that allows him to appear as an alien in the western world – they are his pride as he always takes them off – active audience could acknowledge how getting blood in them would anger / upset the evil master.
  • BEV shot in bath – blood pouring into the water – although there is an obvious injury, there is a sense of this being his evil pouring out of him.