A drama filled with a of comedy..........

Rating: 7/10 (1 August 2010)

In the movie Fargo, the character Jerry ends up in debt and set up a kidnapping of his wife, so that her father can pay a ransom. What he didn't expect was that the two kidnappers Carl and Gaear were going to kill a several people. The theme of the movie I would say is that a crime gone badly. The kidnap was supposed to be the clean cut and no one was supposed to be hurt. By the end of the film people were killed and no one ended up with the ransom money as planned. The kidnap was a disaster from the beginning, when Carl and Gaear met up with Jerry he showed up late at the bar and they were upset. Then when they went to kidnap Jean, she ended up knocking herself out by getting wrapped in a shower curtain and falling down the stairs. After that it goes from bad to worse, they have to kill a highway patrol and an innocent person who just happen to be riding by. The movie was filled with drama but also comical, because of some of the events that took place. Like Jean getting wrapped in the shower curtain, the investigating sheriff Marge being pregnant and also Marge's voice seem so high pitch and nonchalant. Another comical scene was when she met her friend Mike in the restaurant for lunch, that scene was funny to me but I didn't understand how it related to the film at all. The lighting in the film was very mild; although it was winter and there was white snow outside it was still a cloud look throughout the film. There weren't any bright moments in the film they were always a dim look in the scenes. The light wasn't bright most like to make the plot of the crime look more interesting and unexcited. I think if there would have been bright lighting in the film it would have gave the audience the same effect as with the dim lighting.