How suspense was created in the film ‘No country for old men’.

In the film no country for old men a lot of suspense is created which makes the audience wonder what is going to happen next. In the opening scene the credits create suspense as they are in silence no music just a voiceover which may suggest that the whole film will be very suspenseful. In the first scene, a murder has been committed by a criminal the man on the phone and the foreground, however the camera zooms in to focus on the killer this created some suspense. When the killer is free he gets into the police car and stops an innocent driver, he asks him to get out of the car as he does the killer holds a hose full of gas to his head this makes the audience wonder what he is going to do therefore suspense is given, it is also suspenseful because the audience do not expect him to kill him with a hose pipe full of air.
The parallel editing –showing events in two locations both reaching for the same point creates a build up of tension being a primary emotion felt as part of the situation. Also another bit of suspense shown was when the ex-cop found the foreign people all shot dead. He looks around in all of the cars and they are all empty but when he at the yellow car the camera zooms in on the window smothered in dirt/dust at this point the audience fear for the worse as he opens the door to find a man shot fighting for his life. When the same ex-cop is running away from the police, he jumped into the river in order to get away, however the police set a pit bull dog after him and as the man reaches dry land the dog leaps in the air aiming for his throat while he is fiddling with his gun. The audiences are left in suspense waiting to see if he will shoot the dog before the dog gets him first.
One of the last scenes is when the ex-cop finds the tracker for the tracking device in the briefcase full of money. He places the tracker on the bedside table in the motel room and turns of the light leaving the passage light on so he can see the killer’s feet. When the killer’s feet are shadowed outside the door the audience think that he is going to go in and start shooting the ex-cop however they are left in suspense as his feet disappear from the door.