first Coen Brothers film and man they fuckin had it from the start didn't they. Absolute "when a movie is a film that's the fucking cinema baybee" material here. 95 minutes of mile-a-minute twists and turns. It eases you into a very clear story it wants to tell for the first like 15-20 minutes and then pulls the rug out from under you out of nowhere and keeps piling complication up on complication for the entire remaining runtime, the whole mess unraveling before your eyes like a slow motion train wreck. But like in a good way. A train wreck of these characters and their bad decisions. Good shit.
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that one fascinated me for a time in the 1990s—I ought to revisit it. it's such a stylish movie, and Frances McDormand is great in it
Having watched a lot of Italian movies recently, the giallo (and especially Argento) homages were delightful. The antagonist reminds me a lot of Lorne Malvo from the first season of the Fargo TV show as a sort of agent of pure chaos, though M. Emmett Walsh gives it a southern whirl of syrupy drawl and hand-rolled cigarettes, where Billy Bob Thornton plays The Devil™.