Anton Chigurh

I would say this post contains spoilers, but I don't care enough to tell you that.

Wait, I just did.

Ah, but you don't know what movie I'm going to ruin. Anton Chigurh gets away. Llewelyn dies.

The movie is "No Country for Old Men" and Anton Chigurh is my new fictional hero. He replaces Lloyd Dobbler from "Say Anything" and Brodie from "Mallrats". At first glance, you would think that I'm tired of being funny and that I want to be a badass. You would be wrong. I want to piss off my best friends' girlfriend. Since she is actually his fiancée now, I think I'm off to a good start.

Chigurth symbolizes everything Americans need to do to get back on top. I am going on the assumption that we are not on top now, but not in a bad way, in a "Hey, if China wants to be on top for a while that's OK with me. Let her do the work for once" kind of way. America can always roll back on top and get right back into its rightful position of screwing everyone else.

Anton Chigurh is just the guy to make that happen. Once this guy is given a job, he will do whatever has to be done to finish the job. Kill a Cop with his own handcuffs? Sure. Kill a guy with a cattle bolt and steal his car? OK. Blow up a car to get the medicine he needs? No problem. He is both committed and resourceful, both qualities that America could use more of in this day and age.

He is also able to kick back and have fun. If you have not seen the gas station scene, you don't know what fun is.

I have heard complaints that he is not intelligent, that he is just a predator. That is simply not true. To track a man who doesn't want to be found takes intelligence, and luck, as the movie proves. He is not a predator because predators eat their kill. Hannibal Lechter was a predator. Chigurh was just a motivated professional.

And what was he motivated by? Success, and what can be more American than that?

Wait, he was Mexican wasn't he? Shit.

Maybe I should rethink my immigration policy.

K Tuttle