It's that whiteness ...

Rating: 9/10 (31 December 2000)

I always found that snow has something frightening. The Coen brothers were the first to make a film on it: huge plane areas covered with one colour that looks cleaner than all the white T-shirts in the washing powder commercials. Beginning with the very first scene, the brothers play with this image right until the end. And then: the red blood on the white snow... it seams like a picture but it's real. Many people say that it is their best film but that's only because it was the most successful. Most of the movies they made before were much better than Fargo`, but enough about that. It's a masterpiece: A great thriller, unconventional, black-humoured, nihilistic and very, very cruel. In this story, the best worked-out plans are senseless. There is no winner in the game. And in the end, many open questions ...