After stumbling upon a drug deal gone bad, Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) finds himself in possession of a LOT of money. Hot on his trail is the ruthless and unstoppable Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem).
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SPOILER ALERT! Pretty much every Coen Brothers film can be boiled down to a simple statement: Much ado about nothing. People do terrible horrible things to each other and in the end it is all for naught. The money is buried in the middle of nowhere, Bunny wasn't kidnapped, the flood washes away the roll top desk, the secret CIA shit was just a lunatic's memoirs, etc.
In 2003 the US went to war with Iraq over Weapons of Mass Destruction that didn't exist. Thousands of people died and continue to die as a result. Several "important" films have attempted to address the futility of the War on Terror and our post 9/11 world, this film succeeded. And it's set in 1980.
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