Antagonist

Character Role Analysis

Anton Chigurh

Anton Chigurh is a killer, plain and simple. It's not that he especially loves killing. He just tends to find it pleasanter to kill people than to listen to them talk.

He also knows that money is important if he wants to keep funding his psychotic lifestyle though, and that's why he goes after Llewellyn Moss and the two million he stole from a botched drug deal. We're rooting for Moss to take this guy out, but that never happens. It looks like Chigurh is pretty much invincible—except to the cruel hand of fate. The Coens have Chigurh get creamed while driving through a random intersection, which should give all of us with our own antagonists a little breath of hope.