Truth in that I feel bad...the truth in that I buried him while he was still alive... This movie attracted me for two reasons. The first is that it was the first film to win the Sundance Award for Best Independent Film. And the second is that it was the first Coen Brothers movie. The strangest thing is that the first films I watched with these directors, I really didn’t like. I'm talking about "Old Men Don't Place" and "Burn After Reading." Immediately, these directors were on my blacklist. But then one day I saw the movie Fargo and that was it. The film was so great that after that I began to watch more and more of their paintings, and now ...
A young woman, Abby, is unsatisfied with her marriage to Marty, a rough Texas bar owner. A passion breaks out between Abby and bartender Ray. The deceived husband suspects the affair and hires a private investigator to track down and then kill the lovers. But... something unexpected is happening... The detective decided to cheat, as a result of which more people were injured than planned.
The film is very powerful. Probably the best of the Cohen films in terms of its intensity. If "Fargo" was the comedic side of everything that happened, then there is no more.
Everything is very serious, cruel and believable. However, this is always the case with the first films of individual directors. When they do not depend on anyone, they shoot for their pleasure. Just like Tarantino in Reservoir Dogs. So does the Cohens in Simple Blood.
Do whatever they want. As a result, the film is presented to us in very good quality. And if further, starting with "Barton Fink" all the films with a comedic hue (except for "Old Men here is no place", probably for this film and received an Oscar), then in their first film everything was so serious and cruel that it is breathtaking.
Each of the Cohen films is accompanied by a certain morality. Don’t worry about what you don’t have. Well, you can't jump over your head. The point is the same. That if a man, by virtue of his perceptive brain, can invent something beyond what he can do, it is better to forget about it. The detective started a game he could not win. That's what I paid for.
John Goetz played the main male role in this film. The lover of the wife of the owner of the bar where he works. Played really well. Now I know exactly what feelings and emotions a person experiences when they bury another person alive. Well, the other roles are not bad, but nothing memorable. This is really cool.
And now, after watching so many Coen films, I can confidently say that alongside Tarantino, I can call them “revolutionaries” of today’s era, in a good way. While most directors make stamped movies, mostly action movies and romantic comedies, these directors make films that are unlike anything, and for this they are in the cohort of my favorite directors, and “Just Blood”, in my opinion, if not the best, then the second best film of the Coens.
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