The Big Lebowski
The Big Lebowski is the tale of a lazy, good-for-nothing, bowling team-mate, Jeff Lebowski or “The Dude”, who, accompanied by his Vietnam obsessed friend, Walter, and their perpetually clueless teammate, Donnie (who shows up very little in the film considering the importance I’m giving to him at this moment), embark on a very twisted road of confusion and reconciliation only to find that the beginning is very similar to the end in that nothing significantly changes. The most emotionally alarming portion of the movie comes unexpectedly when Donnie has a heart attack and doesn’t recover. “The Dude” is the main character in the story and early on in the film the viewer realizes that he has very little worth to society. This point is what gets him into trouble, partnered with the concept of sharing the same name with a wealthier Jeff Lebowski who has a twisted plan to get rid of his gold-digging, jailbait wife. The film also presents a barrage of other estranged characters such as the beautifully strange daughter of the wealthy Lebowski, and a nihilist porn actor. “The Big Lebowski” is the seventh film created by the Coen Brothers. It won no awards, got no real special recognition and was anything but special in the all-knowing eyes of any first-rate movie critic’s standards. The movie is tasteless, tactless, and vulgar. This film has no redemptive qualities; however, “the Big Lebowski” is a comedy, maybe not by the standards of Buechner, but it is a comedy. “The Big Lebowski” may still hold some moral value but the standards on which it is judged are beyond me. 
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