Texas: Texas, the southernmost state in the continental United States, ranks second in the United States in area, and is smaller than Qinghai in China. To the southeast is the Gulf of Mexico, to the south is Mexico, and to the west is New Mexico. The following is a simple map of Texas:
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(The above link does not guarantee long-term validity. If it fails, please search for keywords on google: "Texas Map")
Terrell: Terrell, a city in eastern Texas. Both Moss and Bell are residents here.
Odessa: Odessa, a city in western Texas. Moss' mother-in-law lives here.
Del Rio: Del Rio, a city on the southern border of Texas, across the river from Mexico. Moss has a close friend here, so he came here the first step after his escape.
Eagle Pass: Eagle Pass, a border city far south of Del Rio, the situation is similar to Del Rio. The place where Moss and Chigurh first clashed head-on.
El Paso: El Paso, a small city in the westernmost part of Texas, is at the junction of Texas, New Mexico and Mexico.
Rio Grande: Rio Grande, a river that crosses central Texas. At the beginning of the film, Moss hunted deer near the river.
Rio Bravo: The Bravo River, the border river between the United States and Mexico, flows through Del Rio and Eagle Pass.
Desert Air Trailer Park: "Desert Air" RV parking lot, located in Terrell, where Moss's home (actually a RV) is parked here.
Regal Motor Hotel: Regal Motor Hotel, located in Del Rio. The hotel where Moss stayed for the first time after escaping. Chigurh killed three Mexicans here.
Desert Sands Motor Hotel: "Desert Sands" motel, located in El Paso. Moss finally hid the money here, where he was also killed by the Mexicans.
Texas map:
Character introduction (in order of appearance):
Anton Chigurh : Anton Chigurh, an anti-social pervert killer, was hired to find the money box lost by the American drug company.
Llewelyn Moss: Llewelyn Moss, a welder, used to be a Vietnam War veteran. He accidentally fled after discovering $2 million in drug money in a vast desert.
Carla Jean: Carla Jean, Moss's wife. Although she was very worried about her husband's embezzlement of ill-gotten wealth, she still supported him.
Ed Tom Bell: Ed Tom Bell, a terrell sheriff who is about to retire.
Carson Wells: Carson Wells, a retired colonel, cowboy and bounty hunter, was hired to stop Chigurh and try to find drug money.
Ellis: Ellis, a retired sheriff, was shot and became disabled during a mission, and used a wheelchair for his entire life. He is Bell's uncle.
Plot introduction: (Due to the large number of Chinese translations of the film, the translated names of the characters and locations are different. For accuracy, the original English names appearing in the film are used below. If you need to compare the Chinese translated names, please refer to the location above Introduction and character introduction.)
The film tells the story that took place in July 1980, and the location began in an open and desolate area in western Texas. Bell, the local police chief, told a story saying that as the times change, the area has become more and more violent. When he ended his narration, Chigurh, an anti-social killer, was arrested by the sheriff's deputy and put in a police car. Chigurh then strangled the policeman to death with handcuffs and escaped and stole the police car. On the highway, he killed a man with a barrel gun (his most famous weapon, often used to open the lock later), and then changed to drive that man's Ford car.
At the same time, Moss was hunting deer by the Rio Grande River and stumbled upon several corpses and a dying Mexican. This was clearly a scene where the drug trade failed. Then he found another suitcase containing 2 million U.S. dollars nearby. At first, Moss took the money and left the dying man to go home, but he was condemned by his conscience that night and decided to go back and deliver water to the Mexican. However, the Mexican gangsters who returned there were found and hunted down. Moss escaped nine deaths, but also left his car on the scene. The next morning, the Mexican and Chigurh learned his name and address through the sign on his car. (Bell knows this car and knows it belongs to Moss).
Moss returned to his RV (parked at Desert Air), let his wife Jean take a coach to hide to her family's home in Odessa, and escaped to Del Rio. Chigurh, a professional killer who was hired by an American drug company and managed to find a cash box, then came to Moss's RV. He used a barrel gun to rush in the car door, but found nothing but the phone bill inside. In the evening, Chigurh obtained signal receivers from two American employers and killed them. Chigurh used the receiver to track Moss and drove to the Regal Motel in Del Rio. Moss lived here after escaping to Del Rio, with the cash box hidden in the ventilation duct of his room. When Moss returned to the hotel at night, he found that someone had been in, and possibly hiding in it, waiting for him to return. Therefore, he did not go in, but rented the next room with the ventilation duct connected to it, hooked the cash box out of the ventilation duct with a self-made long pole and escaped. At the same time, Chigurh rushed into the room and killed the three Mexicans who were ambushing inside. Chigurh looked around for the cash box and then noticed the vent. He unloaded the screw with a coin and opened the baffle, but when he saw what was inside, he realized that Moss had escaped with the cash box. Chigurh used the receiver again to track Moss to a hotel near a border on Eagle Pass. Just as Moss found the signal transmitter hidden in the money in the cash box, Chigurh arrived. Then they had a fierce exchange of fire and continued to merge in the streets. As a result, Moss suffered a serious gunshot wound. He then walked across the border (in the meantime, he threw the cash box outside the railing) and was admitted to a hospital with the help of a group of Mexican musicians. Chigurh became lame after being hit by a shotgun in the thigh until the end of the film. Chigurh then detonated a car outside the pharmacy to attract people's attention, and then stole medicine and syringes from the pharmacy to heal himself.
In a Mexican hospital, Wells, another killer hired by an American drug company, found Moss. Wells' purpose is to stop Chigurh and try to find the money. Wells wanted to make a deal with Moss and promised to protect Moss's life, but the condition was to get a portion of the money. Moss rejected Wells. When Wells returned to his hotel, he found Chigurh waiting for him. After discussing his fate with Chigurh, he was shot and killed by Chigurh. At the same time, Chigurh received a call from Moss in Wells' room and made a condition that if Moss handed over the money, he would not kill his wife, but Moss No matter what, you have to die. Moss angrily refused, planning to retrieve the money box and secretly meet his wife Jean in El Paso, then give her the money and send her out of this dangerous situation. In the middle of an episode, Chigurh went to an American drug company and shot his boss, on the grounds that the boss gave the receiver to the Mexican (recall why the Mexican found the Regal Motel).
Jean worried about the safety of Moss, so he told the old sheriff Bell about the location of the appointment, hoping to get Bell's protection. Jean was followed by a Mexican on the way to the Odessa long-distance station with her mother (preparing to take the long-distance bus to El Paso). Later outside the station, her mother accidentally revealed the address of the meeting to the Mexicans. The Mexicans found the Desert Sands Motel where Moss was staying in El Paso based on location information. In a fierce and chaotic gun battle, Moss was killed by the Mexicans, and the old sheriff Bell was almost able to see him. Jean arrived at the motel an hour later and learned the news of her husband's death.
The old sheriff Bell returned to the motel that had calmed down after having dinner with the local sheriff, only to find that the lock of Moss's room had been broken. Chigurh was standing on the other side of the door and looking at the old sheriff through the reflection of the empty keyhole. Bell pulled out the gun, entered the room, stepped over where Moss was killed, and noticed that the vent cover had been removed with a coin. Bell didn't meet Chigurh in the end.
A few days later, Bell went to visit his uncle Ellis. This is an old police officer who was disabled as a result of being shot by a gangster. Bell said he was tired of the changing times and was ready to retire, but Ellis pointed out that there are more and more violent crimes in the area. Bell also talked about the criminal who paraplegic Ellis died in jail. Finally, Ellis told Bell how Bell's father was killed.
Jean returned home after attending his mother's funeral and found Chigurh waiting for her. Chigurh told Jean why he was waiting for her here (recall that Moss hadn't agreed to Chigurh's condition before: handing over the money to not kill Jean), then Chigurh gave Jean a chance to guess the coin, and if he guessed right, he could survive. But Jean refuses to guess the coin, because the killer decides whether to kill or not.
Chigurh then left the house and drove away. Whether Jean was killed or not has not been explained, but Chigurh lifted his foot when he came out of the house to see if the soles of his shoes were stained with blood. (Reminiscent of Chigurh killing Wells and tilting his foot on the table to avoid blood.) When he drove away, he was hit by a red-lighted car and fractured his left arm. Although he was seriously injured, he could move, so he staggered to the side of the road, bought a shirt from a passing child to make a loop, hoisted his injured left arm, and left before the police and first aid arrived.
Bell is retired, talking about his late father during breakfast with his wife, and then about two dreams he had. In the first dream, he lost money, and then his father gave him 100 yuan; in the second dream, his father rode a horse and passed by him on the snow-capped mountain, holding the torch in the horn, wrapped in it Under a blanket and head down...the surroundings are dark and cold... Finally Bell said: "Then, I woke up." The film ended.
Here are some reasoning questions that some viewers have not figured out.
Why did Chigurh kill that old man on the highway?
At that time, Chigurh had only one stolen police car to drive, but it was too ostentatious, so he had to find a car on the road.
Why did the person in the car die when Moss returned to the shooting scene at night?
If you pay attention to the details, you will find that the window of the car is intact during the day, but there is a hole when you go at night, and there are broken glass under the car. Apparently someone had come and shot that person.
Why did Chigurh kill his American employer at the scene of the shootout?
It's very simple, first of all because the two people are disrespectful to Chigurh and speak bad words. The second is because Chigurh wants to change cars. Chigurh is such a death-like killer. For him, life and death are just the front and back of a coin.
Why didn't Chigurh kill the proprietress of the parking lot
Although the proprietress was rude to him, in Chigurh's view, the proprietress showed a strong principle of not revealing guest information. Chigurh has his principles in killing people. In addition, hearing someone coming out of the toilet at the end of the conversation may make things worse if you want to kill someone, or expose his whereabouts, and killing these insignificant people will be of no benefit.
How did Wells find Moss?
Wells said that it took him three hours to find Moss. Moss didn't understand it, and the audience naturally didn't understand it. This is the director's arrangement.
Did Chigurh kill the accountant after killing the American boss?
There is no introduction in the film, but obviously, yes. Zieg finally asked him: "Did you see me?", that person is an accountant, and of course he would be very "smart" to answer: "No", this is an unprincipled performance in Zieg's eyes, he will definitely kill this people. Extinguishing one's mouth is also an important reason, because no one who saw Zieg kills survived, just like no one alive has seen death kill.
What happened in the final shootout?
The Mexicans found Moss through clues revealed by his mother-in-law, and then hunted him down. In the shootout, Moss fought hard and wounded a Mexican, but he was also killed, and the prostitute who was basking in the sun was also killed by mistake. Then the outgoing Mexicans hurriedly told their accomplices to flee when they saw the police. They didn't get the money.
Finally, what happened when Sergeant Bell went back to the room at night?
Chigurh had already entered before Sheriff Bell went, and got the money Moss had hidden in the vent. Chigurh and Bell faced each other by the door, staring at the keyhole. The sheriff went in after hesitating, but Chigurh had escaped from the bathroom window at this time, and the window buckle showed signs of being passive. (Controversial)
Who took the money in the end?
It was Chigurh who took the money. After Sergeant Bell returned to Room 114 where Moss was killed at night, the audience could infer from the coins and screws on the ground that Chigurh had taken the money away. This can be confirmed in the money Chigurh gave to the child after his car accident.
Did Chigurh kill Moss's wife?
Of course there is. When Chigurh came out of the house, he checked for blood on the soles of his shoes, which proved that he had shot Moss's wife.
How did the Mexicans finally find Moss?
Moss asked his wife and mother-in-law to meet in El Paso, and the mother and daughter went to the Odessa car park to take a coach to El Paso. But they were followed by Mexicans on their way to the car park in a taxi. Outside the car park, the Mexicans heard from their mother that they were going to El Paso.
A few interesting details are attached below, and the others will be added later!
When Moss ran away in a taxi, the driver said to him: "Young people shouldn't be like this...it's dangerous." This is implied. Why does the driver make a pun? Why does the driver know? In fact, this driver looks a lot like the black god in "Fake God"!
For the second time, Chigurh robbed a chicken-carrying car on the highway. Later, everything was shot. Chigurh was washing the chicken feathers on the car with water. It was obvious that the driver was also killed by him.
When Moss was looking for the transmitter in the box, he found that there was a wad of dollars, all of which was $1, and it turned out to be inside. This is very logical, no one would be stupid enough to dig a hole in a stack of 100 dollars.
Moss shot and put the cartridge case in his pocket when he started hunting deer. It can be seen that he is definitely a sniper with a long history! In addition, when he was chased by a hunting dog in the river, he calmly dried the gun and fired after escaping ashore. This is also evident from this series of actions.
Chigurh flipped through the drawer when he was looking for money in the first hotel. It opened from bottom to top. If it is the other way around, you must close the top and open the bottom. It shows that Chigurh has a keen mind.
After Chigurh found Moss for the first time, he rented the room next to Moss. I first studied the layout of the room, and also looked at the thickness of the partition wall, and determined that the bullet can penetrate, so when the Americans were killed later, they would shoot at the partition wall.
There is a scene of Chigurh holding Moss's phone bill and dialing one by one. From the phone bill, it can be found that Moss's most frequent calls are from Odessa and Del Rio in Taxas state. In the phone record on May 20, there was a call to Odessa, and Chigurh also underlined a line to show the importance. Press this number to make a call, and it was Moss's mother-in-law who answered the call.
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