Moss's death

I still have just some nitpicky gripes about the ending. I don't think Bell's "dream" scene was the right one to end on. Two of the three final scenes belong to Bell, and they pretty much communicate the same message. I think one of them should have been done away with, and neither one should have finished the film. Second, I think it may have been a better move to kill Chigurh at the end in the car crash. There are so many more similarities between Chigurh and Moss than I think a lot of people realize. In all honesty, neither man has a noble cause in pursuing the money, they're both willing to kill for it, and they're more than willing to put the lives of other in jeopardy to get to the money. Thus, I think it would have been a great parallel to have Chigurh die in the crash. Here's why: Moss has all he needs when he gets away with the money, but he decides to go back and give the man in the truck some water, as he asked for earlier. This gets the ball in motion as far as having to go on the run is concerned. It ultimately results in a death he doesn't see coming. It's not Chigurh who kills him. Instead, it's the Mexicans who were (presumably) on the other end of the drug deal gone wrong. In the conclusion, Chigurh goes back after having the money to kill Carla Jean simply because he said he would. Like Moss bringing the water to the man in the truck, he really doesn't have much reason to do it, but he does anyway. And then what happens? He dies in a way he doesn't see coming: Not by being shot down in a showdown, but in a car crash. But then again, this really is just a nitpicky detail. The scene still works, but I think it could have worked a bit better if that change had been made. Either way, I feel it would have been a better scene to end on than Bell's talk about his dreams.

The parallel doesn't work as giving the water to the Mexican didn't cause the chase because he already had a tracker in the sachel, all it did was give knowledge to Moss that he was being chased, if he hadn't have given the water he would have died much sooner for he wouldn't have known about being chased so quickly.

Also Anton can't die, he is the grim reaper, a "ghost", death itself, and therefore kind of immortal, a being beyond the rest.

I don't buy the idea of Antom being anything but a villain. While it's true that he does kill most of the people he comes in contact with, he spares a few others. Seeing as he clearly bleeds and has to fix wounds of his, I don't think that he's anything close to immortal. He's just a badass walking around doing what he does best. Like everyone else in the movie, he has an agenda: Get the satchel, and if you get in his way or he makes a promise to kill you (like Carla Jean), you're dead.

Cleaning his wounds simply shows how he can cover anything up and that he is beyond human. Yes he doesn't kill everyone, but that is because it isn't there time. If he was a villain, he would have simply killed Bell at the motel in El Paso, but he didn't, it wasn't Bell's time yet. On more frank terms, yes he is clearly the villain, and yes even on metaphorical terms he is the antagonist, but on those metaphorical terms, death isn't always a villain as much as it is simply an obsticle