No Country For Old Men

This is getting sad, really really sad. This was AT BEST an average film. Like so many films of 2007, gimmicks and marketing as well as hype take the place of good film-making. I'm starting to think people don't know what makes a film great anymore. This story HAS been done MANY times, don't go crazy for this movie because it is a COEN brothers and you think you MUST like it. The story worked for the most part, but WAKE UP PEOPLE! this wasn't that great or original a film! We have seen this story before, we have seen these characters before, because he had a cattle killer and an off-center haircut, don't think this was something fantastic.

Fargo (film reveiw)

Set against the white canvas, Fargo is one of those rare films that comes along once in a decade. Arguably the best film of the nineties, this gem gets better with repeated viewing like most Cohen brothers films pre Ladykillers. The acting is superb, the cast perfectly picked. Some defining roles in the careers of Steve Buschemi, Peter Stormaire and William H. Macy.

The serpentine plot is just one of the outstanding facets of this film, the cinematography set against the white canvas of the Minnesota winter, creates a lonely, sad, isolated feeling. Isolation in general is a major theme in this film, as well as the distances between people, the lack of communication, lies and deception that can be humanity at its worst. In fact very few people in this film are not total degenerates. The Cohen brothers are clearly expressing our existential despair through black humor and they do it like no one else when they have all cylinders firing as they do in Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski, Barton Fink, and Millers Crossing.