In No Country for Old Men Anton Chigurh kills multiple people and takes their cars while he’s traveling throughout Texas trying to find Llewelyn Moss and the drug money he stole.
My question is do you really think constantly killing people and taking their cars was really more effective at avoiding detection and the police than simply using one car (stolen or obtained legally) in the time period the book takes place in (early 1980s)?
What about in today’s world?
Do you think Chigurh uses the same method to travel around when he isn’t on a mission?
To me it seems like it’s adding far more unnecessary risk on top of the risk intrinsic to the mission he’s already on than the benefit would make up for especially since he makes no effort to hide the bodies of the car owners or the previous car.
by Coldblood-13
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Absolutely stupid back then, terminally stupid today.
It’s just him enacting our his personal desire to be an agent of chaos at all times, I don’t think its a particularly solid transportation option…
His entire point was challenging himself and being a maniac. He got arrested as a goof just to see if he could escape.
Cars and phones that track their paths? Surveillance cameras on every street corner and every Ring doorbell?
Technology made this not viable anymore.
I don’t think he really cares. He is the embodiment of sociopathic behavior I think he just wants an immediate progress toward his goal
But in real life that does seem impractical
In the 1980’s, this would work fine because LE often didn’t really coordinate very well across county or state lines, and often times they did not bother to look up license plates unless the car was pulled over or acting suspicious.
Today they’d catch him in like a day or two at most.