Alternative views of blood in NCFOM

Elizabeth Welty-
-I believe the blood in No Country for Old Men represents a type of power that each character holds. Whenever a minor character dies, there is obviously a loss of power, but it is more significant in the major characters. Each time Llewelyn or Anton is injured, the blood seeps into their clothes and is a prominent feature on their person, and this signifies that the perpetrator has power over the victim and his actions. This power goes back and forth between the two characters throughout the movie, as they injure each other back and forth, which is significant of the never-ending struggle between good and evil, or any other pair of strong forces.

Hae Lee-
-The most interesting thing in this movie was that Anton Chigurh, a brutal psychopath, shows a strong aversion to blood. Coen Brothers deliberately shows the scenes when Chigurh cleans his hands or body after killing someone. From the beginning of the movie, we see that Chigurh carefully cleans his hand covered with blood after killing a sheriff who arrested him. I also noticed that whenever Chigurh kills somebody he checks the bottom of his boots to see if there's any blood on them. Also, I think the part of reason why Chigurh uses the air gun is to avoid getting blood on him. On the other hand, we never see Llewellyn cleaning himself after getting shot (we see that he is clean, but never the process of cleaning). I think this contrast was really interesting, because we would expect the murderous bad guy to be always covered in blood.