Driving to Fargo with an offering

Rating: Null/10 (4 December 2003)

This film starts like a story from the bible: A man travels through the desert with an offering. He concludes a deal with dark forces in Fargo. From then on the story winds down like a clockwork; everything that happens afterward is just bound to happen, there is no way out. Yes, human willpower has its limits - this seems to be the central message of this seemingly so Unamerican American movie.
Live can be beautiful though, the thoroughly content police officer Gunderson proves it amply. She is happy at the thought that her husband carefully paints wild fowl for three cent postage stamps. Those who take strenuous exercises in trying to write down car serial numbers illegibly for a dumb scheme that will not work in the end are the less fortunate of this planet.
I hope the Coen Brothers created officer Gunderson with the thought of a sequel already in mind. She would offer herself to it wonderfully. I would very much like to see how the Coens tackle the sequel issue. Why not send the Gundersons with the offspring somewhere on holiday (Morocco perhaps, like Jimmy Stewart in The Man Who Knows Too Much) where something happens? I am looking forward to that movie.