Not my cup of tea

Rating: 5/10 (19 February 2007)

Obviously this movie struck a chord with many people, but I failed to see its charm. I found it visually beautiful, but hollow. I found the characters hollow, both the good and the evil ones.
If I had interpreted it differently though, it could be perceived as a projection of the characters onto a purely material plane, in which they are observed strictly in terms of their actions with no added effort to reveal their psychological state on the part of the filmmaker. The onus is on the viewer.
In the end, in any case, I was not drawn in, and I found it to be a cold meditation on the effects of human stupidity and materialism. A description of a world that we don't quite actually live in, but could, if we don't watch our step and observe ourselves in the same cold ridiculing manner of Fargo's camera?