Blood Simple was the movie that introduced the film aficionados to the genius and unpredictability of the Coen brothers, and their dangerously captivating world – a dark, murky place where all rules of normality have gone completely haywire, and where things have a splendid knack of going horribly wrong at the slightest opportunity. A neonoir, with an almost lazy yet beautifully paced plot– a Coens’ speciality – filled with all their quirkiness, bizarre morality plays, ironies, and of course a copious amount of betrayal, double and triple dealings, and murders. The trivial tale of a husband hiring a private eye to murder his wife who is cheating on him, turns out to be a delicious treatise on the famous Murphy’s Law – if things can go wrong, they will. The movie, as in all their subsequent films, is littered with a great cast of character actors from the slippery and unscrupulous private eye to the opportunist wife cum quasi-femme fatale to the cuckolded and burning-for-revenge husband. [This happens to be my 50th film review. Way to go]
Director: Joel & Ethan Coen
Genre: Post-Noir/Crime Thriller/Private Eye
Language: English
Country: US
3 comments:
Nice capsule review of a good flick. For me, "Blood Simple" showed the promise of the Coens, realized fully in their later films.
P.S. The Coens are much better than those Cohans!
I agree with you on that! Blood Simple showed a hell lot of promise, which of course the Cohans (read Coens) have fulfilled numerous times over. In fact, as an individual film, this showed maturity & audacity way beyond their experience at the time of its making.
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