An excellent apres la lettre movie

Rating: 10/10 (28 September 2004)

Fargo is about a man, Jerry Lundegaard, in my opinion Macy's best performance ever, who simply needs money. Therefore he decides to hire two men, Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare, to kidnap his wife. To get her back an amount of money must be paid, partly by Jerry's father in law. One Half of this sum will be paid back to Jerry, the other half to the kidnappers. A brilliant way to get yourself some money, isn't it? After having kidnapped this wife, things go terribly wrong for our two kidnappers. So wrong that, at the end of the movie, almost all characters are involved in the problem.
During the first thirty minutes of this film I thought: 'What kind of crap am I watching now?' This feeling faded away during watching the movie. Only after the movie however, I realized how good the movie was I just had seen. Only then the real kick besieged me. I call this the apres la lettre effect. Realising only after the movie how good it was.
The movie is so good because of the total credulent acting of Buscemi in special. We all know he is a genius at playing queer roles, but this is the absolute top. Very good and witty acting by Frances McDormand to, and not to forget the quiet and mysterious role of Peter Stormare.
10 out of 10