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Originally Posted by Baby Lee
We've discussed this before, though I'm not sure where, but that anti-climactic disappointment was the PURPOSE of the ending. We're used to those cinema tropes, where the protagonist is tried mightily, but ultimately prevails. But this is NCFOM, where evil is a new [or just the same old] unstoppable force that comes out of left field, effs shit up, and carries on. The white hat doesn't get the girl any more, the showdown doesn't play out by the rules at high noon, you're as likely to be taken out by Mexican yahoos as a worthy adversary. It's bleak and dystopian, and I love it.
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Yeah I get that. Like I said, I have no problem with a movie ending with the bad guy winning. The only difference here is that the movie didn't feel like it had an ending. You go on this experience with the guy (Brolin) that your supposed to get invested in and then suddenly he's just dead? I get thats how it was in the book and I hate it when movies change things huge like that from the original source they're coming from, but I agree that it feels like they (and i mean McCarthy) ended it like that for the sake of being artistic, not to make a good book, and that pisses me off
*Note: I have never read the book.