Why doesn’t Carla Jean run away from Anton Chigurh?
In the movie No Country For Old Men why doesn’t Carla Jean Moss just run away after finding Anton Chigurh sitting in the chair?
He isn’t pointing a gun or dangerous weapon at her.
It seems she should rather have run away and then give the police a description of him and maybe they would have caught him and she could have received some justice and revenge for him killing Llewelyn.
She doesn’t seem stupid (maybe she is, because simply trying to talk it out with someone whose clearly a psychopathic killer isn’t a smart or wise choice).
Best Answer
She is petrified.
Shortly after she sees Chigurh in this scene, she says "I need to sit down," and she takes a seat. Her need to sit was most likely caused by a biological reaction to fear:
One of the ways in which the body prepares for this action is to redirect blood flow to the areas most needed, including the legs, which are needed to run away from danger. Increased blood flow to the legs can make them feel weak, tingly or like jelly. Source
Even though the blood flow is to facilitate running, it can make a person feel like they cannot run.
She believes she can reason with him.
During the scene, Carla mentions that she just buried her mother, seeking some pity. She says the money is gone, hoping to make him lose interest. And she tells him that he has no reason to hurt her, which logically is true. Unfortunately, she did not count on Chigurh keeping his word to her husband that he would kill her if her husband did not give himself up.
She doubts she'd be able to outrun him.
She is in a skirt and in heels. He is a powerfully built man in boots. Her legs feel weak from fear, and she probably assumes he has a gun, even if she cannot see it. Running probably seems like an unlikely prospect for her.
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Why does Chigurh kill Carla Jean?
Chigurh says he'll kill Carla Jean if Llewelyn doesn't give him the money. He means that literally. Even though Llewelyn dies, and even though Chigurh gets the money, Chigurh still kills Carla Jean because Llewelyn didn't literally hand over the money himself.Does Chigurh kill Carla Jean in the book?
Chigurh lets Carla Jean flip a coin to potentially save her life, and in the book, Carla Jean chooses heads, loses, and gets killed. In the movie, however, Carla Jean refuses to take the coin flip (or if she does, it happens off-screen), and Chigurh kills her only because he's following his own strange moral code.What happened to Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men?
After spending much of No Country For Old Men following Moss (Josh Brolin) as he tries to stay one step ahead of Chigurh (Javier Bardem), the character is shockingly killed offscreen by assassins. Chigurh later recovers the money Moss stole and, true to his earlier threat, comes to kill Moss' wife, Carla Jean.Why didnt Anton Chigurh kill Sheriff Bell?
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