The most unconventional zany crime drama have ever seen

Rating: 8/10 (11 August 2019)

Fargo is a film that usually other films are not.
It break rules of film making like crushing the fruits in a mixer.
It is the story of Jerry who has this plan to get his wife kidnapped by two low life criminals Carl and Grimsrud.
Just like his name Grimsrud is a grim man who does not like to speak too much while Carl on the other hand is quite talkative and pretends to think too much but always ending up finding himself in a mess.
Jerry's father in law is a rich man who doesn't seem to like or respect Jerry a bit. Jerry is a car sales executive in a showroom and think that he deserves to be compensated and helped by his father in law.
His wife Jean is a satisfied housewife who is completely settled in her middle class life. She doesn't care about her father's abundance of money and her husband's lack of money.
The kidnapping is done but the kidnapping also leads to three irresponsible and avoidable murders on the road by Grimsrud where we also get to see his dark and unpredictable nature.
The small scheme of kidnapping and asking his father in law for money goes haywire and now involves murder, This is where Marge comes in.
Marge is the Police Chief in the area and her family is as normal as it can be.
Her husband and her, were both in Police once but then her husband left his job and spends time painting while Marge is working as Police chief.
Marge is good at her job but she is very girly from inside. She is also conservative in her nature. She is going through her first pregnancy period and also solves the case like that.
The best part about Fargo is its non-genre defining structure. The film is not funny yet the way character behaves you always feel something funny in the scenes. You think it is going to be a funny film when suddenly there is murders and blood all over the place and still the film appears to be funny.
You are never sure which mood you should carry while watching the film.
The character of Marge impresses you more than anything.
There were two things which I think was difficult for anyone to digest initially about her. First was her pregnancy and second was her meeting with her old friend Mike.
Mike, at first appears to be interested in Marge despite knowing that she is happily married and pregnant. We become sure of it when he hugs for longer time than it usually takes for someone to hug and also he forcefully tries to sit next to her. Mike says that he is going through a tough period and his wife has recently died. Marge feels sad for him.
Later Marge comes to know from another former classmate that Mike was lying and his wife is healthy as a bull.
This is the key factor which makes Marge conclude that maybe Jerry is lying about his wife too.
This results in her catching the criminals and Jerry.
I love how Marge says "Yeah" when she is talking on phone which is very synonymous to any housewife lingo. It goes against her profession of a Police chief.
She is pregnant which makes her vulnerable but that doesn't stop her from doing things that she has to do. She works all day long and yet manages to find time for her husband and her home.
Fargo is one of the rarest examples of how you can mix multiple genres into one and escape successfully into it.
The film never answers your questions and is crazily unapologetic.
It never tells you what happened to all the money that Carl buried in the snow.
It never tells you what happened to Jerry's wife and his son.
The film was good because though it never answers all these questions yet you kind of feel satisfied that every wrong guy met their fate. Jerry and Grimsrud both gets arrested.
I love how they end the film with what can be the most cliched dialogue in the film.
Marge says, "Why kill so many people for little amount of money?"
This shows the contradictory innocent nature of Marge and how despite working in Police and catching criminals all the time, somehow her innocence isn't tampered with. She just can't understand why people commit crime. Life is too normal for her.
This Oscar winning drama is definitely a must watch.