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This movie is classic Cohen Brothers. I am still not sure I understood it. I liked the movie and thought I understood it pretty much until the ending. Then I really got ticked off because the movie ended abruptly after a strange monologue by Tommy Lee Jones who played the sheriff. I had intended the movie to have a formularic ending of good triumphing over evil and there was certainly enough gratuitous violence to satisfy the average movie goer. After thinking about it, I may need to go see it again because everyone I told that I hated the movie, they loved it and had a different interpretation. I don’t think I fell asleep and missed anything but evidently I wasn’t really paying attention. The more I think about it, it was an allegorical movie simply reminding us that there are varying degrees of evil in the world because several of the key players personified different levels of evil, except for the sheriff who was truly an honest and honorable man. In the end, without seeing again, the best I can figure out is the movie tells us that we have progressed from an honorable society to an evil on and that maybe in the war between good and evil, that good may win some battles but you will never eliminate evil. Also, there is such a thing as pure evil. Do the good become apathetic and just do the best they can? That question is up for grabs, at least until I see the movie again. I think I missed something in the translation.