NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN: What’s Chigurh Really Trying to Kill?

Anton Chigurh trespasses through streets and towns and into other people’s houses. A ghost. With a blank, feelingless face. Numb to the core. A man who kills without a second thought in Joel and Ethan Coen’s No Country for Old Men. Life means nothing to him. Not his own. Not anyone else’s. Is he a psychopath, as many people think? Maybe. But what does that label mean?