Best. Movie. EVER.

Rating: 10/10 (25 May 2003)

Spoilers be here.
I first saw Fargo around 7 months ago, from that day forward it has been my absolute favorite movie. Fargo is accessible, because it's the story of an everyday guy (Jerry) who needs money, so he hires a couple other everyday guys to kidnap his everyday wife, who end up shooting an everyday state trooper, and so on and so forth.
I choose not to view Fargo as a comedy, even though it has quite a few funny moments. I see Fargo as a story of real life. When you think about it, Fargo is one of the most realistic movies out there. It's the Hamburger Hill of thrillers. Like I said, Fargo is about people who aren't really smart (well, except for Marge I guess) doing things that aren't very well thought out. And there isn't a whole lot of drama to the things they do that make them more exciting and less realistic. For example, Marge doesn't fight off 20 ninja assassins in the field where she finds the dead bodies. Jerry doesn't pull out Uzis and have a 10 day standoff with police in the hotel at the end of the movie. Marge's husband (even though I love Fargo I can't remember his name) doesn't win the stamp competition. No, Fargo shows what life really is like, without a whole lot of needless drama. And yet, somehow, there IS drama, in the imagery. Like when Jerry is walking to his iced over car in the building parking lot. The scene is shot from above, and for a few seconds it looks like it's a picture because of the stillness until Jerry walks into frame. Or when Steve Buscemi drives into the airport parking lot to steal new plates for his car. Or when Marge shoots at the fleeing Peter Stormare as he runs across the frozen lake. Fargo's drama comes from compelling imagery, and not suspension of disbelief.
Yeah, that didn't make sense, but you can pretend it did.