| Posted by: tomcervo at February 29, 2008, 2:42 pm | | Topic: A confused Coen brothers fan Forum: groupsrv | | On Feb 29, 2:38�pm, Auntie Lib wrote: Quote:I had a discussion with a friend, comparing "Fargo" and NCFOM. �Yeah, they're both almost nihilistically violent, but "Fargo" had something NCFOM was completely lacking: �a protagonist the audience could care about. Please don't mistake McCarthy's deeply moral view for nihilism--he's only showing what happens when you cross the line. The "hero" steals drug money. All he has to do to save himself and the family he's made is to get rid of it, but he equates money with success and happiness. The story is as nihilistic as the Pardoner's Tale. Quote:While I liked Tommy Lee Jones' character (Tom?) in NCFOM he turned out to be totally ineffectual. �Yeah, shit happens and then you retire.. Big fuckin' deal. �The cops showed up too late in every instance, made a few pithy comments and then moved on. �I liked Llewellen, too, but look what happened to him. Maybe it was the Cohen's way of saying that there really isn't anything we can do about anything. That's pretty much McCarthy's way, and again, you cross a line and that's what happens. We've brought up a couple of generations as consumers rather than citizens, and the national motto is now Yes, you can have it all. So we have prepubescent murderers being tried as adults, because adulthood in this country now seems to start at 10, or as soon as you start buying stuff. Quote:(You know what I would have LOVED to see? �I was hoping little miss Carla Jean, with her sweet face and black mourning dress, would pull out the shotgun she keeps beside the door in her bedroom and just blow that fucker Anton away as he sat in the chair flipping his coin. �It would have been totally shocking and would have redeemed the whole mess as far as I'm concerned. I guess Mel Gibson wasn't directing. Quote:�But no. �They've got to continue on with the theme: �life's a bitch and then you . . . � That's pretty much what Job found out. |
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