Tree of Smoke

[Keith]

Neither the novel, nor the movie, holds up under that level of  
scrutiny. Plausibility is stretched at every turn.

I loved both as suspenseful, but actually very light, entertainment.

On Nov 18, 2007, at 2:16 PM, Richard Ryan wrote:

The writing is evocative, but that scene made no sense to me.  Why  
did Wells, a trained killer like Chigurh, go docilely to his death?  
Why did he walk into Chigurh's trap and then submit to his own  
execution?  And why did McCarthy introduce an interesting character -  
in some sense a sane version of Chigurh - and then eliminate him? To  
make a some didactic point about the implacability of Chigurh and the  
evil that he represents?