No Country for Old Men《对于“爱”，我们还有多少信仰？》

就像小说一开始，警长说到他逮捕并送入毒气室的那个年轻罪犯，“一个没有灵魂的人”，一个拒绝接受/延续世世代代社会所建立起来的契约的人。并疑惑“这样的人是从何而来”？

你将如何面对这样一双眼睛——所谓灵魂的窗户，而他却根本没有灵魂？他象一个游离于社会之外的幽灵，从感情上对他人一无所求，不需要友情，不需要爱，不需要尊重，不需要关心，不需要肯定也不在乎你的鄙视，或仇恨，或恐惧，或孤立……

你将如何面对这样一个没有灵魂的人？圣经许诺的“爱的力量”能够战胜这种无边的黑暗与空虚吗？当启示录中描绘的那个“红龙”的时代到来之时，你是加入他们的追逐，还是隐身退出？

老人在内心中相信父辈的火种会在最黑暗最寒冷的时候温暖自己，就像他结尾时所描述的梦境，但他似乎不能确定自己是否还能够将这样的火种继续传递下去，似乎感受到黑暗的逼近……

许多小说都会安慰自己及读者说，好人最后总会战胜坏人，好人最终会得到自己所追求的目的，但是在现实世界中，或许并不像我们所希望的那样理所当然，很多人其实并不清楚自己真正想要的是什么，自己放弃的是什么。什么才是最珍贵的？守住内心的光明并不那么容易，想想无穷无尽黑暗寒冷的宇宙中，偶尔的几颗发光发热的恒星，一旦燃尽便又归于黑暗寂灭……

然而，我们的存在，不正因了这短暂的光和热吗？

看完小说，再回忆起电影最后的那个撞车的情景，这个杀手也不过是一个脆弱的人类，一样会有生老病死飞来横祸，那折断手臂的背影，不由让人产生出一种怜悯来，死，真的有那么可怕吗？把地球让给他们又如何？就像圣经中所说的“让好人继续做他们的好人，让恶人继续做他们的恶人……”

摘录一些其中有趣的段落:

Most of em I know had never been to a execution before. When it was over they pulled this curtain around the gas-chamber with him in there settin slumped over and people just got up and filed out. Like out of church or somethin. It just seemed peculiar. Well it was peculiar.

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It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.

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Llewelyn?

What.

Nothin.

What is it.

Nothin. I just wanted to say it. You take care. Llewelyn? What.

Dont hurt nobody. You hear?

He stood there with the bag slung across his shoulder. I aint makin no promises he said. That's how you get hurt.

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They walked among the trucks. These sumbitches are bloody as hogs Wendell said.

Bell glanced at him.

Yeah Wendell said. I guess you ought to be careful about cussin the dead.

I would say at the least there probably aint no luck in it.

It's just a bunch of Mexican drugrunners.

They were. They aint now.

I aint sure what you're sayin.

I'm just sayin that whatever they were the only thing they are now is dead.

I'll have to sleep on that.

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The stories gets passed on and the truth gets passed over.

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I had no say in the matter. Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is scrupulous. The shape is drawn. No line can be erased. I had no belief in your ability to move a coin to your bidding. How could you? A person's path through the world seldom changes and even more seldom will it change abruptly. And the shape of your path was visible from the beginning.

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At supper this evenin she told me she'd been readin St John. The Revelations. Any time I get to talkin about how things are she'll find somethin in the bible so I asked her if Revelations had anything to say about the shape things was takin and she said she'd let me know. I asked her if there was anything in there about green hair and nosebones and she said not in so many words there wasnt. I dont know if that's a good sign or not. Then she come around behind my chair and put her arms around my neck and bit me on the ear. She's a very young woman in a lot of ways. If I didnt have her I dont know what I would have. Well yes I do. You wouldnt need a box to put it in neither.