Loved it

Rating: Null/10 (11 May 2010)

This was my first Coen brothers experience and I love it. The film begins with a screen with writing on it and it says that this film is base on a true story but to find out it's not. After seeing you would believe it. The film delivers a lot a verisimilitude and does it well. I appreciated the editing techniques used. When some scene changed the screen turns to black and for a few second stays black. My favorite technique was when Carl (Steve Buscemi) is beating the TV trying to make it work. Then the camera zooms in and the TV is working properly but when the camera zooms out, its present in the room of Maggie and her husband. I really got I kick out of the cops in the film. The way Maggie and Lou interact when investigation the first murder scenes with the cop and the witnesses is comical. They take a serious situation and make it kind of funny. The film is full of comedic relief. I like that aspect of the film; it was dark and funny at the same time