A powerful message on the influence of environment. Where you put yourself in life really matters, and that was clear for all the characters in this film. Monty most of all. He could’ve had the world, but he was caught in the wrong stuff, wrong place. Stellar stuff from Norton, who is a criminally underrated all time actor. P.S.H is good in a role that is this misguided and just heavily influenced, especially by Norton and Dawson’s relationship in the…
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Blood Simple 1984
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
A clinic from Mr. Joel Coen. A quick, clean work of art coming in at 97 minutes. Killer. The camera work was flawless and made the difficult look easy. I LOVED the bar shot over the sleeping man. I was anxious the whole runtime, and that says a lot for a movie that’s doesn’t have dialogue for the whole second act (essentially). Hedaya was solid, Getz was electric, and McDormand put forth a wonderful, out-of-the-loop, innocent bystander in trouble performance.…
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