10 More Movie Characters Whose Fates Are Never Resolved
1. Anton Chigurh - No Country For Old Men
There have been few cinematic antagonists quite as chilling, as intimidating, and as unsettling as Javier Bardem's Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men. The coldness and the brutality in how he goes about hunting down Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) are almost reminiscent of a machine rather than a man. More like a Terminator than actual flesh and blood.
But Anton was human. Behind the iconic haircut, the sick, sadistic smile, and the unique pneumatic bolt gun, his bones broke just like anyone else's would when he was involved in a hideous car crash towards the end of the movie.
Chigurh paid a nearby kid for his shirt to use as a sling and carried on with his day, but where he went from there was left up to the audience to decide.
No Country for Old Men famously ends rather abruptly following a monologue from Tommy Lee Jones' Sheriff Bell, essentially confirming that the story was never actually about Chigurh or Moss. Anything could have happened to the villain afterward, particularly since he was in such a bad way and wanted nothing to do with any hospitals, but the story was about Bell and paid little mind to Chigurh at the end.