It's all about the Characters

Rating: 9/10 (21 March 2011)

When i first saw Fargo a few years ago i wasn't as convinced , as most , of how good this film was. Since then , The Coen Brothers films have grown on me. After watching this again it has certainly gone up in my estimation although i still think it's far from perfect. Without a doubt , the best thing about Fargo is the characters . William H Macey , Steve Buscemi and especially Frances McDormand make Fargo the interesting film that it is. I love the way Marge Gunderson acts as if she's so slow , yet it's just the way people are in that part of the country and in fact she's far from stupid. William H Macey plays a man so caught up in debt that he tries to have he's wife kidnapped so he can share the ransom and needless to say things go wrong very quickly. He's perfect for the role of a man in trouble as he is in one of favourite films , Boogie Nights. This is not the best Coen Brothers movie but it certainly a memorable one and it's a film i appreciate a whole lot more than i did when i first saw it.