Fargo - The Coen brothers

My all time personal favorites from the Coen brothers would be this, in a close top 5: 1. Fargo 2. No Country for Old Men 3. Barton Fink 4. The Big Lebowski 5. Raising Arizona And Fargo, both written and directed by the Coen brothers, is pretty much the movie that epitomized their work as auteur filmakers. Still No Country for Old Men, cannot best out Fargo, and of course, The Coen brothers don't need Cormac MacCarthy to show them how to write a proper story. If any, they should tell McCarthy on how to write one, because the man simply doesn't impress as a novelist. Has anybody seen this, because come to think of it, everybody has probably seen this movie, a solid number of times simply because of it's raw appeal, if any appeal it still has. I haven't watch this film a couple of times, but mostly myself I think I've seen it, fifty times. And it just doesn't get tiring. Nothing from what the Coen brothers could make, could even come to classify as tiring. Even as we speak, I'm watching it on Megavideo.com. It's a timeless classic, that's why its a given reason that this movie in itself can never get old. And it just doesn't get old from here. It can never get old here or anywhere. You can start to believe on the box that It's an american masterpiece, because it's actually really what it is. While we all know that the script seems to be flawless in a unique way. There are no slow parts, everything is tightly balanced on a thread. The characters are themselves immersed in the Fargo, Minnesota dialect, with only the word "YAh !" clocking in at hundreds of times. It's one of those winter movies that gave a proper poetry to the winter season, thanks to the cinematography of Roger Deakins, one of film's greatest artist of the picture. It's been a long time partnership with Roger Deakins who has also been their cinematographer for the movie No Country for Old Men. In the neo-noir genre, it's pretty much the same feeling that we have for exquisite perfection in every possible way. Some people have said that Fargo was overrated, well for that being completely erroneous at the very least. I do mean people, and not the critics themselves, and on second thought what the hell do people know. William H. Macy's performance as a cowardly and demonicly cold and deceiful car salesman who hires hitmen to kidnap his own wife, is quite much what carries this movie together to the end, with a great supporting cast, such as the kidnappers themselves. Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare unravel to us the quirks and the strange habits, along with the short tampered psychosis of the characters : one being fully introverted and monosyllabic, and the other one being a complete firecracker. The Coen brothers have gone pretty much as masters of character study in the most of all their movies, struggling with every fiber of their own gut into making every character : a very unique and unforgettable character. Fargo simply keeps you again and again for more, and more. And it just doesn't want to let go out of you. You can never satiety then before with this movie. M.M