Cinema's most assured masterpiece in the lapse of fifty years ( and I'm not kidding)

Rating: 9/10 (30 March 2007)

When you think of Fargo, you can simply think of a lot of things, but one thing that can be absolutely and undeniably true, it's the utter beauty of this picture. The Coen Brothers seem to be the catalysts of five of the greatest film directors in history : Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky, John Huston, Brian De Palma, and last but not definitely not least, Nicholas Ray. Fargo breathes in the work of these great directors, simultaneously ! It is so much of a level of talent, that it's simply insane, and I couldn't even afford to kid.
The screenplay and the story, written by the Coens, seem to breathe three great writers of the 20th century : Fyodor Dostoyesky, Anton Tchekov and finally James M. Cain.
God, you cannot even begin to describe the brilliance of structure and style that the film is dealt with. It is as obscure as it is breathtakingly shocking. The acting of William H. Macy is completely at it's peak in this picture, and even today the man is a considerable and magnificent acting genius. Macy is absolutely divine, in portraying the most bleak and opportunistic of cowardice, in the role of this car salesman. He is perfect in this role, as he might not have in the lapse of six years, since 96 at the eve of release of Fargo. But on the downside of things, he has suffered immense type-casting, if you can take the example of another movie The Cooler, in which he plays another meek character. (He should probably hire a better agent, but very good agents are hard to find) He comes off as a second Bob De Niro, in this picture.
The greatest scene and probably the most gruesome scene is the wife's kidnapping. But for now, let's explain the whole universe, which is Fargo. The film opens in the eerie beauty of winter, in harsh snow-falling of Minnesota, located in a small town. Jerry Lundergaard played by Macy, is a car salesman who wants to plan his wife's kidnapping and ransom with two stone-to-death pathetic and amateurish career burglars. He does this in the goal of getting is father-in-law's life insurance of 40 M, as a scam and sharing fifty-fifty with the kidnappers, played by Steve Buscemi, and Peter Storre (or something) That's all you get from me, and I don't care what you do on any given week-end, just watch this brilliant movie. Go every where, find this dang movie, own this dang movie. Me, I've probably seen it 20 times already. Move your butt for this movie, just run to get this movie. I don't care if you're drunk, stoned or something, find this movie, you shall not regret it.
Well that's enough out of me, and that was a film expert's advise.