No Country for Old Men on the surface is an old western style chase film, one man following another- both paralleling each other in the way they move, think and function. Moss embarks on a journey after finding a case of money when he dangerously stumbled upon a brutal drug deal gone wrong. And soon he regrets taking this money, as he starts to be hunted by a ruthless man, ready to take him down at every obstacle. However, this western genre is transcended by the immense nature of the way each of these characters act. It is no longer the traditional structure of Cowboys vs Indians… but juxtaposing this, with the two characters: Moss and Chigurh integrating into each other.  The Coen Brothers show this through various recurring motifs between the two… from close ups of their injured ankles to the lines they say. All this film form clearly links these characters significantly to each other. Further presenting this interesting idea of the subverting of the classic genre traits, of outsider vs insider (perhaps they are suggesting this feeling America seems to have towards xenophobia is outdated, along with the typical western genre). In this way, even though the film is set in the 70s it feels very modern in the way it is filmed, edited and its ideological message of parallelism between cultures… even if it isn’t on the surface.