S.W. Belated Fargo

I know it’s been a while since this was shown but it is still an oppurtunity to get double blog credits. Car salesman Jerry Lundegaard (Macy) hires low-lifes Carl and Gaear (Buscemi and Stormare) to kidnap his wife, hoping that her wealthy father will pay a ransom from which Jerry can creama share. The abduction goes according to plan, but the kidnappers commit three murdersas they drive by night through the snowyMinnesota wastes. Police chief Marge Gunderson (McDormand), a slow-talkin’, smart-thinkin’, pregnant housewife, investigates.  The Coen’s beguiling film is both very funny and, finally, very moving.  The idea that someone. Even with the violence, this is still a more mild answer to there privious films. Marge and her husband are genuinely good, ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events of, to them, unfathomable evil.  Peter Stormare’s character still makes me question humanity every time I watch the movie.  I feel the Fargo wil go down in my personal history as one of my favorite movies.

~ by brettswanson on December 8, 2008.