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The Judge along with the evil protagonist in No Country For Old Men are as evil as they get in literature. They rose up out of Cormick McCarthy’s deep sinister mind 😂😂😂😂

I was reading this book while camping out in west Texas. The whole scenario, the cold west Texas starlit sky, the howl of wolves in the distance, the shooting stars, along with this mysterious book made my life plummet into a deep contemplative about life.

People like to say this is the most graphic book there is but they are nowhere near right lol. This book is mild.

"Extremely thorough" millions of survivors

TY for mentioning Faulkner’s influence and specifically“A Rose for Emily” - one of the greatest short stories with a wonderful payoff at the end.

I don't even think the Judge killing the Man had any sexual connotations or was done for sexual gratification. He just represented death and sin catching up to the Kid. After leaving the gang he spends decads living a normal life, and the final thing he does before meeting the Judge is shooting a 15 year old boy dead. The Judge was naked to represent his pure state, and he crushes him to death in a bear hug, leaving his body broken and crushed like Oberyn Martell after the fight against the Mountain

I found the book to be so bloody and sad. I could barely make it through the first half. I had to quit multiple times to get the nerve to begin reading it again

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And no protagonist

The judge is not real he stares at him mirror meaning his talking to himself and he became like the judge, he raped the little girl after he shot her father

10:38 From this moment on, I will experience peeing in a totally new light. Thank you.

ive never read Proulx but she sounds amazing. Maybe i have a shitty taste but she sounds like the 20th century southamerican vanguradists

He used an "Anal Intruder" on him. It's a heavy duty power tool with a rubber fist on the end.

My take from it was the idea of modern civilization coming to the western world. And how before civilization was as it is now, so much blood death and violation had to come for it to be as we know. Them making holes for oil and using mechanisms to extract it. Making was for Industrial Revolution, and a more law abiding land. At least that’s what I take.

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This video would hit so much harder if the happy music wasn’t playing, something darker would have set the tone

i think i like myers. i also like cormac mcarthy.

Judge is i think definitely the devil for he preaches morals are made by man and convinces them to deny God and his morals and purpose he has made for us

If they ever make this book into a movie. I think Undertaker (Mark Calaway) would be an interesting casting choice. His size and demeanor are an instant check. Would be cool to see some test footage!

I always thought the ending was trying to explain that even though The Kid moved into the period of america where bloodshed was frowned upon, it can still find you. The Judge will always exist no matter how much society changes, evil people will always exist. I do like the parallel of the merdian being the end, that makes alot more sense.

I appreciate you making this video! My dad named me Meridian after this book and I never knew what it was about. This really helped.

Bro I swear the music and scenery are NOT fitting the descriptions 😭

When I first read the book I did initially think that the judge killed the raped and girl and did do something horrible to the kid and that that’s what the two men walked in on in the out house, but After watching the cinema cartography analysis I really like their interpretation that perhaps the hug was more like a metaphor for the kid basically succumbing to the evil ways of The judge and that and that he was the one who was responsible for the girl going missing and that the Judge we see at the end of the book is actually the kid. I’d need to actually re read the book again to feel confident one way or another, but I think with the re incorporation of the comment and just how ambiguous the whole ending is, along with some of the other arguments they made, it does seem plausible to me and darkly fitting within the themes of the book.

As much as I agree with your analysis, I can't get over the idea Judge is somewhat cosmic - and Cormac - man of intelligence - had to have a sense of humour and certain distance for critics in that point of time. So, in a sense, he went anal about too much analytics? Hear me out - H.P. Lovecraft has always been big, but The Thing entered cinemas in 1982. Blood Meridian was published in 1985. The ending is touching the nuances of Cosmic Horror, lovecraftian unseen terror. Think about it, the terror indescribable left behing by "IT" - not referencing King per-se but cosmic being incapable of dying and feeling remorse - feeding on pain, suffering and mutilation. It crawled back to the party naked. Or manifested?

I think the mentioning of those who search for bones and those who do not, is drawing back to bears that dance and bears that do not. Bones can draw a relation to death and even outside of the main narrative and with some time past, we still see an element of truth to the judges haunting beliefs, those who commit to death, those who do not. Just my interpretation 🤷‍♂️

I feel like the Coen Brothers are the only ones who can do Blood Meridian justice by making it into a movie.

If McCarthy kept it ambiguous, then it's 'not' the ending you envisioned... Holden hugs the Kid/Man, waves goodbye, and has a huge sloppy deuce! The End.

Sooo fences? Human progress?

But why is the thumbnail Bill Belichick?😂😂

"The will" of "the good" will always triumph. Might never makes right. Might is #2 to the Good. The might makes the good show up. The Good are superior and dangerous.

I reread the ending yesterday, and my new head canon is that instead of the Judge killing the Kid, the Kid kills the Judge in a comically over the top way that he would not expect. The men's reaction is them gawking at the aftermath of seeing the Judge folded in half stuffed head first into the Jakes, limp and very dead. The dancing at the end is the Judge's dying thoughts. The Kid, now The Man, rides off into the sunset like Shane and is the guy in the epilogue.

If McCarthy was a gigachad, his decision to leave the ending ambigious was because he himself had no idea how to interpret it

after reading the comments yeah the idea that the man killed a little girl is more fetting

Dorie spangler and john wynkoop are hacking stalking creeps.

The judge killing the kid isn’t even for sure and most people believe either the kid became the judge and killed the missing girl/the kid died in the shootout at his camp with the kid who insulted him and he’s in hell

Because he could 😂

It’s wild how much of a survivor the “Kid” was and how unceremoniously he’s dispatched. “In the end everything we do is just everything we’ve done.”

Just by the video existing causes.a child to disapear

Those who truly believe that might makes right, must be dominated and broken of this mental sickness.

he wasnt wrong for comparing the ken follett sentence to a cormac mccarthy sentence because Cormac McCarthy books often don't have a climax at all. So it might as well all be the same no matter what sentence you take from his books.

To be fair, ' 'strangled ways' ' really is one of the most pretentious things I've heard recently lol. I doubt even she knew what she meant when she wrote that down

Having to be Cormac McCarthy's editor as a reader is a HUGE nonstarter for me. I paid for a finished book and this MFer's editor was like, "Looks good to me!" This is exactly why your average 17 year old edgelord isn't a New York Times bestseller.

Wow. Sounds boring as hell and of value to teenage boys like Rand.

The kid did a lot of bad things to children throughout the story, as the book clearly indicates the judge had smaller hands than the kid and the first child who was found had large handprints left on them. The kid, as the man, ends it all after ending the bear and the girl. Judge is not a human. No?

To say this could never happen again is a little nieve...similar violence still happens in places daily...say electricity goes out you would see a similar world

Honestly, I don’t think he got sexually assaulted. Although I do understand why that’s the common Take away of everybody.. It doesn’t suit the judges MO I read this theory that it was more of his moral viewpoint And the kid gave in and became a total monster. When the bar girl that was a dwarf that looked like a 12-year-old Mexican girl. But he couldn’t get it up and what not Unfortunately, I can’t give a profound and elaborate take like a lot of you guys. I don’t find myself to be an intelligent type, but the author is very descriptive and detailed for a reason I do believe it bothered the judge that the kid wouldn’t partake or wouldn’t be swayed by him I do think they fought maybe the kid won and he became the monster. I don’t know.

They played a hand.

It's got to suck to be a midwit.

bro wtf why he naked you can put your clothes back on dumbass

“He says he will never die.”