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In Reply to: What was your problem with No Country posted by Jazz Inmate on February 19, 2008 at 15:34:09:
rate the far more complex, nuanced, and satisfying "Fargo?"
We are set up--- remember the sheriff's story about the lawman shot from the porch?--- for a reckoning that never arrives. Now, evil may triumph but a lawman whose cowardice leads to a woman's brutal, cold-blooded murder? That's nihilism and I don't like it.
"Fargo" was just as brutal, more realistic, but it didn't leave one with the feeling that evil wins out, that even the best of men must genuflect to evil incarnate.
Imagine, if you will, Gary Cooper's sheriff in "High Noon," scooping up Grace Kelly and decamping before the showdown. Or "Shane" deciding that he's just going to wander on after hearing about the brutal Jack Palance.
Sorry, I don't need a happy ending but this one was false to the expectations it raised.
"False Expectations" would have been a better title.
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- Oh come on! A "masterpiece?" If it were, how would you - tinear 16:13:01 02/19/08 (8)
- Fargo was practically a comedy like Raising Arizona - Jazz Inmate 17:10:44 02/19/08 (7)
- The Coen Bros. just cannot not be funny. nt - geoffkait 12:03:53 02/20/08 (0)
- But is it truly comic relief? - Harmonia 22:17:11 02/19/08 (0)
- "Barton Fink," "Miller's Crossing," "The Man Who Wasn't There," - tinear 18:10:27 02/19/08 (4)
- Go to your local video store and you'll find Barton Fink in the comedy section - Jazz Inmate 01:07:43 02/20/08 (1)
- And if you go to the WH, you´ll find George W. Bush sitting at the Oval Office (that is, when he is not... - orejones 11:28:20 02/20/08 (0)
- Add Blood Simple to the serious Coens' list. - Road Warrior 19:40:36 02/19/08 (0)
- "...art shouldn't debase humanity." - Sage. ~t - mpathus 19:09:08 02/19/08 (0)
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