No Country For Old Men Ending Explained

No Country For Old Men Ending Explained

My interpretation of the dream is that the world his father prepared him for never happened. The father went ahead and the son fell behind, and then woke up, before he could reach his dad. We don't know what the world will be in 10 years, so How are our elders meant to prepare us based on their knowledge of a world that doesn't exist anymore. Tommy lee jones doesn't understand javier bardems character and his dad doesn't understand him. The world is taken over by the youth, There's no country for old men.

Every human being lives in their parent's parent’s world. We are always two generations of thought behind the modern world. Our parents were ostensibly young adults when they gave birth to us. They had no real life experience, so hopefully they had the luxury of their parent's (our grandparent's) experience to cope with the world, while they made money and we needed daycare. The tragedy is that the people who raise us are not equipped to deal with the current world. There may be some experience that is relevant but the world changes in ways that the former generation can not adapt to.

The character's final dialogue reveals a dream sequence where his dead father is providing him some light into the darkness ahead of him. The dream is indeterminate but so is life. With nothing but his parents' ill equipped experience to guide him, his dreaming mind conjures up a glimmer of hope in the form of a flickering torch.

I will go a step further to say that this movie targets an older generation's fears. We all want to master the world and pass on our knowledge, but the world at times changes too quickly for our comfort.