Sooo, Coen Brothers time again.
This time round, they've decided to remake Fargo, give or take.
In that you get four of five bloody idiots, and have them all screw each other
over, misunderstand the situation until all are dead or insane. It's a pretty
standard Coen brothers trick, really, you come up with a stupid plot, (this
time two people trying to blackmail a CIA guy for the return of what they
believe is confidential information) and manage to get away with how stupid
your plot is by making it clear that everyone involved in it really is stupid.
So it really is Fargo/Big Lebowski/Raising Arizona territory.
There is a, if not serious, then at least melancholy undertone to it all. In
that practically everyone in the film is romatically unhappy, and a lot of the
misunderstandings involved stem from couples not communicating, and a lot of
the motivation for action and change in the film come from the characters
being unhappy with their lives. The only real exception to this appears to be
Brad Pitt's character Chad, who is pretty much an amiable, clueless boob.
It's a good movie, but it's an average Coen Brothers movie.
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